depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better: faith yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your

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sake. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy "in the faith; "that your glorying have as may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presworthily ence with you again. Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether

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I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul Gr with striving for the faith of the gospel: 28and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God; "because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, is read but also to suffer in his behalf: "having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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If there is therefore any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of nally. the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; doing nothing through faction or through thing to be vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; 'not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. Have this mind in you, which was also Gr.bend in Christ Jesus: 'who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himbecoming self, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. Wherefore also God highly

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the world

exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; that in the name of Jesus every things of knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on below earth and things under the earth, "and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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12 So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not 'as in my presence only, but now much antimore in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings; "that ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst naries. of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world, "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 neither labour in vain. "Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all: and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.

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19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good com- Gr. fort, when I know your state. 20For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state. For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in fur- apostle. therance of the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me: "but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly. 25But I counted it necessary to Many send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow- authori worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and tos minister to my need; since he longed after you all,

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the Lord.

and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick for indeed he was sick nigh unto ties read, death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow 28I have sent him therefore the more upon sorrow. diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honour: because for the work of "Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward

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Finally, my brethren, 'rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe. Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision: for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh: 'though Grgains. I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: any other man 'thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 'circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 'as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them ngas but 'dung, that I may gain Christ, and be found in sss him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even which is that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God

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"by faith that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; "if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus. 3Brethren, I count not myself 'yet to have apprehended: but one thing I do, prehend, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretch- that is ing forward to the things which are before, "I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in 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: "only whereunto we have already attained, by that same rule let us walk.

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17 Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and Many mark them which so walk even as ye have us for an authori ensample. For many walk, of whom I told you yet. often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. For our 'citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: "who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may 40. be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

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Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord. Yea, I beseech thee

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also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, for they Farewell laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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4 "Rejoice in the Lord alway: again I will say, "Rejoice. Let your 'forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

S Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honourable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. The things gracious which ye both learned and received and heard and

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saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity. "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I 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 131 can

joiced hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

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do all things in him that strengtheneth me. "Howbeit ye did well, that ye had fellowship with my affliction. 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