Philippians -Colossians Paul and Timothy, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the sanctified in Jesus Christ who are at Philippi, with the guardians and helpers:

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Paul and Timothy, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the sanctified in Jesus Christ who are at Philippi, with the guardians and helpers: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ I thank my God upon every memory of you, ⁴ always in my every entreaty for all of you, making the entreaty with joy ⁵ for your participation in the good news from the first day until now. ⁶ Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. ⁷ Just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good news, you all being partners with me of the grace. ⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in bowels of Jesus Christ. ⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment ¹⁰ for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ, ¹¹ having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God. ¹² But I want you to know, brothers, that the things in respect to me have come more for the advancement of the good news, ¹³ in order for my bonds in Christ to become apparent in the whole Praetorium, and in all the others. ¹⁴ And more of the brothers in the Lord have been convinced by my bonds to be much more bold to speak the word fearlessly. ¹⁵ Actually some even preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will. ¹⁶ Some indeed proclaim the Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to bring affliction to my bonds. ¹⁷ But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good news. ¹⁸ What then? Except in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice, but also I will rejoice. ¹⁹ For I know that this will turn out to me for salvation (through your entreaty, and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ) ²⁰ according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. ²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not. ²³ And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better. ²⁴ But to remain in the flesh is more necessary because of you. ²⁵ And having been convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and will continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith. ²⁶ So that your pride may abound in Christ Jesus in me because of my presence with you again. ²⁷ Only be citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the good news. ²⁸ And not being frightened in anything by those who oppose, which is indeed a sign of destruction to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God. ²⁹ Because to you it was granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him, ³⁰ having the same conflict such as ye saw in me, and now hear is in me. ² ¹ If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, ² fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness, ³ in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves. ⁴ Look ye out each man not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others. ⁵ Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold. ⁷ But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men. ⁸ And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross. ⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, ¹¹ and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ¹² Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³ For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval. ¹⁴ Do all things without grumblings and arguments, ¹⁵ so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. ¹⁶ Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain. ¹⁷ Yet even if I am poured out a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. ¹⁸ And in the same way, ye also be glad and rejoice with me. ¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be cheerful when I know the things about you. ²⁰ For I have no man like-minded who will genuinely care for the things about you. ²¹ For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus. ²² But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child to a father, he served with me for the good news. ²³ Indeed therefore I hope to send this man immediately, whenever I may focus on the things concerning me. ²⁴ And I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come soon. ²⁵ But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and co-workman and fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need, ²⁶ since he was longing for you all, and distressed because ye heard that he was sick. ²⁷ For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ Therefore I sent him more urgently, so that having seen him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful. ²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men esteemed. ³⁰ Because for sake of the work of the Christ he came near the point of death, handing over his life so that he might fill up the deficiency of your service toward me. ³ ¹ Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is really not irksome to me, but safe for you. ² Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workmen, beware of the excision. ³ For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh. ⁴ Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more: ⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; regarding law, a Pharisee; ⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless. ⁷ But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ. ⁸ But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of things surpassing, of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith-the righteousness from God based on faith- ¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, ¹¹ if somehow I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. ¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead, ¹⁴ I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ As many therefore as are perfect should think this way. And if ye think anything differently, this also God will reveal to you. ¹⁶ However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way. ¹⁷ Brothers, become fellow-imitators of me, and watch those who so walk, just as ye have us for an example. ¹⁸ For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ, ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things. ²⁰ For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which also we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself. ⁴ ¹ So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord this way beloved. ² I exhort Euodias, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. ³ Yes, I ask thee also, genuine yokefellow, help them-the women who labored with me in the good news-with Clement also, and the rest of my co-workmen whose names are in the book of life. ⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice. ⁵ Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is near. ⁶ Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God. ⁷ And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸ Finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are commendable, if anything is a virtue, and if anything is praiseworthy, think on these things. ⁹ And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you. ¹⁰ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last ye have revived thinking about me, in which also ye were thinking, but ye lacked opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I speak regarding need, for I have learned in what things I am to be content. ¹² I know both how to be abased and how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be lacking. ¹³ I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me. ¹⁴ Nevertheless ye did well having shared with my affliction. ¹⁵ And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only, ¹⁶ because also in Thessalonica ye sent both once and again to my need. ¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. ¹⁸ But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will fill your every need according to his wealth in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ Now to our God and Father is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly. ²¹ Salute every sanctified man in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me salute you. ²² All the sanctified salute you, and especially those of the house of Caesar. ²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you all. Truly.

Colossians

¹ ¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, ² to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love toward all the sanctified, ⁵ because of the hope being reserved for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news ⁶ being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth. ⁷ Just as also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondman, who is a faithful helper of the Christ for you, ⁸ the man who also made clear to us your love in spirit. ⁹ Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. ¹⁰ For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God, ¹¹ being strengthened in every ability, according to the dominion of his glory, for all perseverance and longsuffering with joy. ¹² Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light. ¹³ Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, ¹⁵ who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶ Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created through him, and for him. ¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things. ¹⁹ Because in him it was considered good for all the fullness to dwell, ²⁰ and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him whether things upon the earth or things in the heavens. ²¹ And you, being formerly alienated and hostile in mind, in works, in things evil. But now he has reconciled ²² in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and unblameable before him. ²³ If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper. ²⁴ I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church. ²⁵ Of which I became a helper according to the administration of God, which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God, ²⁶ the mystery that was hidden from the ages and from the generations, but has now been made known to his sanctified. ²⁷ To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. ²⁸ Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power. ² ¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have about you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh. ² So that their hearts may be encouraged, having been united together in love, and for all wealth of the full assurance of understanding, to knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father of the Christ. ³ In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ And I say this so that not any man may delude you with persuasive speech. ⁵ For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your orderliness, and the steadfastness of your faith for Christ. ⁶ As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as ye were taught, abounding in it with thankfulness. ⁸ Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority. ¹¹ In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ. ¹² Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions, ¹⁴ having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross. ¹⁵ Having stripped the principal offices and the positions of authority, he exposed them openly, having triumphed over them by it. ¹⁶ Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, ¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things coming, but the body is Christ's. ¹⁸ Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, ¹⁹ and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God. ²⁰ If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world? ²¹ Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch ²² (which are all things for consumption by use), according to the commandments and teachings of men? ²³ Which having, are indeed a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and self-mortification, and austerity of the body-not in any value against indulgence of the flesh. ³ ¹ If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ² Think on the things above, not the things on the earth. ³ For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God. ⁴ When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory. ⁵ Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of which the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ in which ye also once walked when ye lived in them. ⁸ But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth. ⁹ Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices, ¹⁰ and having put on the new man, being renewed in knowledge according to an image of him who created him, ¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all and in all, Christ. ¹² Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering, ¹³ forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye, ¹⁴ and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God. ¹⁷ And all things, anything whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, expressing thanks to the God and Father through him. ¹⁸ Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in the Lord. ¹⁹ Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them. ²⁰ Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged. ²² Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. ²³ And all things, anything whatever ye may do, work from soul as to the Lord and not to men, ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ. ²⁵ And he who does wrong will be recompensed what he did wrong, and there is no partiality. ⁴ ¹ Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens. ² Continue in prayer, being vigilant in it with thankfulness. ³ Praying simultaneously about us also, so that God may open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound, ⁴ so that I may make it known as I ought to speak. ⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those outside, redeeming the time, ⁶ your speech always with grace, seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one. ⁷ Tychicus will make known to you all things about me, the beloved brother and faithful helper and fellow bondman in the Lord. ⁸ Whom I sent to you for this same thing, so that he may know the things about you, and may encourage your hearts, ⁹ with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother who is of you. They will make known to you all things here. ¹⁰ Aristarchus my fellow prisoner salutes you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom ye received orders, if he comes to you, welcome him), ¹¹ and Jesus who is called Justus, these being the only fellow workmen from the circumcision for the kingdom of God, men who became a comfort to me. ¹² Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God. ¹³ For I testify about him, that he has much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis. ¹⁴ Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas salute you. ¹⁵ Salute the brothers in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly associated with his house. ¹⁶ And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation of Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea. ¹⁷ And say to Archippus, Watch the ministry that thou received in the Lord so that thou may fulfill it. ¹⁸ The salutation of Paul by my hand. Remember my bonds. Grace is with you. Truly.