Today’s
Reading: Philippians 1 - 4 (KJV)
Philippians 1
Php 1:1 Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus
Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the
bishops and deacons:
Php 1:2 Grace be
unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Php 1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Php 1:4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all
making request with joy,
Php 1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the
first day until now;
Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he
which hath begun a good work in you will perform it
until the day of Jesus Christ:
Php 1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of
you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in
the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
Php 1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long
after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Php 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound
yet more and more in knowledge and in
all judgment;
Php 1:10 That ye may approve things that are
excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
Php 1:11 Being filled with the fruits of
righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Php 1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren,
that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the
furtherance of the gospel;
Php 1:13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in
all the palace, and in all other places;
Php 1:14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing
confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Php 1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and
strife; and some also of good will:
Php 1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not
sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
Php 1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set
for the defence of the gospel.
Php 1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way,
whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice,
yea, and will rejoice.
Php 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my
salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Php 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body,
whether it be
by life, or by death.
Php 1:21 For to me to live is
Christ, and to die is gain.
Php 1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall
choose I wot not.
Php 1:23 For I am in a strait between two, having a
desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Php 1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Php 1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I
shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
Php 1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in
Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
Php 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see
you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one
spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Php 1:28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries:
which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and
that of God.
Php 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of
Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
Php 1:30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me,
and now hear to be in me.
Philippians 2
Php 2:1 If there be
therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship
of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Php 2:2 Fulfill ye my joy,
that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being
of one accord, of one mind.
Php 2:3 Let
nothing be done
through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other
better than themselves.
Php 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but
every man also on the things of others.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took
upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Php 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him,
and given him a name which is above every name:
Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth;
Php 2:11 And that
every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always
obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out
your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of his
good pleasure.
Php 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Php 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the
sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Php 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may
rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in
vain.
Php 2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice
and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
Php 2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and
rejoice with me.
Php 2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy
shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
Php 2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will
naturally care for your state.
Php 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which
are Jesus Christ’s.
Php 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son
with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
Php 2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so
soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
Php 2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself
shall come shortly.
Php 2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and
fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
Php 2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of
heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
Php 2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but
God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have
sorrow upon sorrow.
Php 2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully,
that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less
sorrowful.
Php 2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all
gladness; and hold such in reputation:
Php 2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh
unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Philippians 3
Php 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To
write the same things to you, to me indeed is
not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Php 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers,
beware of the concision.
Php 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship
God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
flesh.
Php 3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the
flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof
he might trust in the flesh, I more:
Php 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of
Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a
Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Php 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church;
touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Php 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I
counted loss for Christ.
Php 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency
of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of
all things, and do count them but dung,
that I may win Christ,
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own
righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of
Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Php 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto
his death;
Php 3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection
of the dead.
Php 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either
were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for
which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have
apprehended: but this one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
which are before,
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the
high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be
thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even
this unto you.
Php 3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already
attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Php 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and
mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example.
Php 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you
often, and now tell you even weeping, that
they are
the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Php 3:19 Whose end is
destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose
glory is in their shame, who mind
earthly things.)
Php 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from
whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Php 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may
be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he
is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Philippians 4
Php 4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and
longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
Php 4:2 I beseech Euodias,
and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind
in the Lord.
Php 4:3 And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow,
help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Php 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
Php 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men.
The Lord is at hand.
Php 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto
God.
Php 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus.
Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things are honest,
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.
Php 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and
received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with
you.
Php 4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now
at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also
careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
Php 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I
have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith
to be content.
Php 4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how
to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to
be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Php 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Php 4:14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye
did communicate with my affliction.
Php 4:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the
beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated
with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
Php 4:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and
again unto my necessity.
Php 4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit
that may abound to your account.
Php 4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having
received of Epaphroditus the things which were
sent from you, an odour of a sweet
smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
Php 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need
according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Php 4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Php 4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The
brethren which are with me greet you.
Php 4:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that
are of Caesar’s household.
Php 4:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.