1 Or, things of the world below 9 cross. Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is 10 above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and 11 1 things under the earth, and 2 Some that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 12 So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not 2 as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trem13 bling; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good plea14 sure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings; 15 that ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world, 16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain 17 neither labour in vain. Yea, and if I am 4 offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with 18 you all and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me. 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know 20 your state. For I have no man likeminded, who will care 21 5truly for your state. For they all seek their own, not the 22 things of Jesus Christ. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in further23 ance of the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, ancient authorities omit as. so soon as I shall see how it will go with me: but I trust 24 in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly. But I 25 counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your 6 messenger and minister to my need; since he longed 7 after 26 you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick for indeed he was 27 sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. I have sent him 28 therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive 29 him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honour: because for the work of 30 8 Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me. Finally, my brethren, re- 3 joice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe. Beware of 2 the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision: for we are the circum- 3 cision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh: though I 4 myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man 10 thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: circumcised the eighth 5 day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching 6 the law, a Pharisée; as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. Howbeit what 7 their shame, who mind earthly things. For our 8 citizenship 20 is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who 21 shall fashion anew the body 3 Or, not of our humiliation, that it may having as my right-be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself. eousness that which is of the law Gr. upon. 5 Or, apprehend, seeing that also I was appre hended things were 1 gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. 1 Gr.gains. 8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the ex-2Or, refuse cellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but 2 dung, that I may gain 9 Christ, and be found in him, 3 not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God 10 4by faith that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming 11 conformed unto his death; if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the 12 dead. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect but I press on, if so be that I may 5 apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself upward 6 yet to have apprehended: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things 14 which are before, I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the 7 high calling of God in 15 Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye are otherwise minded, even this shall God reveal unto you: 16 only, whereunto we have al- 11 Gr. ready attained, by that same rule let us walk. : 6 Many ancient authori ties omit yet. 7 Or, 8 Or, common wealth 9 Or, Farewell 10 Or, gentleness reverend. gracious 13 Gr. take account of. 17 Brethren, be ye imitators to- 12 Or, gether of me, and mark them which so walk even as ye have 18 us for an ensample. For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of 19 the cross of Christ: whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in 14 Gr. rejoiced. Wherefore, my brethren be- 4 loved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved. I exhort Euodia, and I ex- 2 hort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord. Yea, 3 I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life. 9 Rejoice in the Lord alway: 4 again I will say, 'Rejoice. Let 5 your 10 forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious; 6 but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And 7 the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatso- 8 ever things are true, whatsoever things are 11 honourable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are 12 of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, 13 think on these things. The 9 things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you. But I 14 rejoice in the Lord 10 greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked 11 opportunity. Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I 12 am, therein to be content. I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in every thing and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in 13 want. I can do all things in 1 Or, see- him that strengtheneth me. 2 Gr. unto 14 Howbeit ye did well, that ye had fellowship with my af15 fliction. And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving, but 1 the ages of ye only; for even in Thessa- 16 Salute every saint in Christ 21 Jesus. The brethren which are with me salute you. All the 22 saints salute you, especially they that are of Cæsar's household. The grace of the Lord Jesus 23 Christ be with your spirit. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS. brother. PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, 1 Gr. the and Timothy 1our brother, 2 2 to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colossæ : Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 2 Or, to are at ancient 3 We give thanks to God is also in all the world bear- For this cause we also, since 9 unto all in every 2 Gr. made powerful. 3 Or, in 4 Some authori- 5 That is, 6 he might have 7 Or, For the whole fulness of 8 Or, work, and increasing in the 1 Or, by 11 knowledge of God; 2strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and 12 longsuffering with joy; giving thanks unto the Father, who made 4 us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints 13 in light; who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; 14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of 15 our sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn 16 of all creation; for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto 17 him; and he is before all things, and in him all things 18 5 consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre19 eminence. 7 For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the ful-11 Or, 20 ness dwell; and through him to reconcile all things unto 9 himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, whether things upon the earth, 21 or things in the heavens. And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet 22 now 10 hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unre28 proveable before him: if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, 9 Or, him 10 Some ancient authorities read ye have been re- steward- 12 Gr. from the ages and from the generations. 13 Or, in power 14 Or, fulness 15 The ancient authorities vary much in the text of this passage. which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister. Now I rejoice in my suffer- 24 ings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church; whereof 25 I was made a minister, according to the 11 dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God, even the mystery 26 which hath been hid 12 from all ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, to whom God 27 was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom 28 we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; whereunto I 29 labour also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me 13 mightily. For I would have you know 2 how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; that 2 their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the 14 full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, 15 even Christ, in whom are 3 all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. This 4 I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. For though I am 5 absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. As therefore ye received 6 8 Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk 7 in him, rooted and builded up in him, and stablished 1in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding 2 in thanksgiving. 8 Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the 4 rudiments of the world, and not 9 after Christ: for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the God10 head bodily, and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power: 11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of 12 Christ; having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from 13 the dead. And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he quicken together with him, having forgiven us all our 14 trespasses; having blotted out 5 the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the 15 cross; having put off from himself the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day: 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body 18 is Christ's. Let no man rob you of your prize 7 by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling In the things which he hath 1 Or, by 2 Some ancient sert in it. 5 Or, nances 6 Or, having put off from himself his body, he made a show of the principalities 7 &c. Or, of his will, by own mere humility &c. 8 Or, 9 Many ties, some ancient, insert not. authori 10 Or, honour 11 Many ancient authorities read your. 12 Gr. Make dead. 13 Some ancient authorities omit upon the sons of disobe dience. See Eph. v. 6. 11 Or, amongst whom 9 seen, vainly puffed up by his If ye died with Christ from 20 the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, Handle 21 not, nor taste, nor touch (all 22 which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a 23 show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any 10 value against the indulgence of the flesh. If then ye were raised to- 3 gether with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind 2 on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. For ye died, 3 and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is 4 11 our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. 12 Mortify therefore your 5 members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry; for which things' 6 sake cometh the wrath of God 13 upon the sons of disobedience; 14 in the which ye also 7 walked aforetime, when_ye lived in these things. But 8 now put ye also away all these; anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth: lie not one to 9 another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, and have put on the 10 new man, which is being re |