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| Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in
Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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| Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord
Jesus Christ.
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| I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
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| Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
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| For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
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| 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:
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| 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.
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| For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of
Jesus Christ.
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| And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment;
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| That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere
and without offence till the day of Christ;
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| Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus
Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
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| But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which
happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the
gospel;
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| So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all
other places;
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| And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are
much more bold to speak the word without fear.
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| Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good
will:
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| The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add
affliction to my bonds:
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| But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the
gospel.
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| What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth,
Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
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| For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and
the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
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| 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.
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| For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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| But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I
shall choose I wot not.
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| For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be
with Christ; which is far better:
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| Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
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| And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with
you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
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| That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my
coming to you again.
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| 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;
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| 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.
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| For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on
him, but also to suffer for his sake;
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| Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
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