Philippians -Colossians

EJ2000(i) 1 ¶ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2 Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 ¶ I thank my God upon every remembrance of you 4 always in every prayer of mine for you all, making request with joy, 5 for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. 7 ¶ Even as it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint partakers of my grace. 8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. 9 ¶ And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception, 10 that ye may approve the best, that ye may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ, 11 being filled with fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. 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, 13 so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places; 14 and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. 15 Some indeed preach the Christ even out of envy and strife, but others also out of good will. 16 Some preach the Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add tribulation to my bonds, 17 but the others out of charity, knowing that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel. 18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, and will even rejoice. 19 For I know that this shall become my saving health through your prayer and the nourishment of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 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. 21 ¶ For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour, yet I do not know what to choose. 23 For I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better: 24 nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith, 26 that your glorying in Jesus Christ may be more abundant by my coming to you again. 27 ¶ Only let your conversation be as is worthy of 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, unanimous, working together for the faith of the gospel, 28 and in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of saving health and that of God. 29 For unto you it is granted regarding Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, 30 having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear to be in me. 2 1 ¶ Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same charity, unanimous, minding the one thing. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in humility let each esteem others better than themselves, 4 with each one not looking to their own things, but also to the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men, 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross {Gr. stauros – stake}. 9 Therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father. 12 ¶ Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always hearkened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own saving health with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 14 ¶ Do all things without murmurings and doubts, 15 that ye may be blameless and innocent, children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. 17 And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. 18 For the same cause ye also have joy and rejoice with me. 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. 20 For I have no one likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s. 22 But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel. 23 Therefore, I hope to send him presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. 24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. 25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellowsoldier, but your messenger and he that ministered to my needs. 26 For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he had been sick 27 For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 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. 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and esteem such 30 because for the work of the Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. 3 1 ¶ It remains, my brethren, that ye rejoice in the Lord. It does not bother me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe. 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit and glory in Christ Jesus, having no confidence in the flesh. 4 ¶ Though I might also have reason to confide in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the lineage of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, a persecutor of the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But those things which were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ. 8 And doubtless I even count all things as 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 9 ¶ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death, 11 if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained it, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if I may lay hold of that for which I have also been laid hold of by the Christ, Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not reckon to have laid hold of it yet, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and extending myself unto those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 ¶ Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, in that unto which we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us have the same mind. 17 ¶ Brethren, be imitators of me and consider those who so walk, as ye have us for a pattern. 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 {Gr. stauros – stake} of Christ; 19 whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things). 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is also able to subdue all things unto himself. 4 1 ¶ Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. 2 I beseech Euodias and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. 3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women who laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also and with my other fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life. 4 Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice. 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is near. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, exercise yourselves in these things. 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. 10 ¶ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again, in which ye were also concerned, but ye lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in respect of want, for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content. 12 I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to have an abundance; in everything and by all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 14 Notwithstanding ye have done well, that ye did communicate with my tribulation. 15 Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from Macedonia, no congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. 17 Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. 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, wellpleasing to God. 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 20 ¶ Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you. 22 All the saints greet you, chiefly those that are of the Caesar’s household. 23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Colossians

1 1 ¶ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colosse: Grace be unto 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, praying always for you 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the charity which ye have toward all the saints, 5 for the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which ye have already heard by the word of the truth of the gospel, 6 which is come unto you, as it is in all the world, and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day ye heard it and knew the grace of God in truth, 7 as ye also learned of Epaphras, our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ, 8 who also declared unto us your charity in the Spirit. 9 ¶ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 that ye might walk worthy of the Lord, pleasing him in everything, being fruitful in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God, 11 strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness, 12 ¶ giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us worthy to participate in the inheritance of the saints in light, 13 who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son, 14 in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the remission of sins, 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature; 16 for by him were all things created, that are in the heavens and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they are thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by him and in him; 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell 20 and by him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross {Gr. stauros – stake}, whether they are the things in the earth or the things in the heavens. 21 And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled you 22 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight 23 if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard and which is preached to every creature which is under heaven, of which I Paul am made a minister, 24 who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which is lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body’s sake, which is the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, 25 of which I am made a minister by the dispensation of God which is given to me in you, to fulfil the word of God, 26 even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints, 27 to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery in the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, 28 whom we preach, warning every man and teaching in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus, 29 in which I continue to labour, contending according to his operation, which he works in me mightily. 2 1 ¶ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, 2 that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in charity and in all the riches of the fulfilled understanding to know the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ; 3 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 ¶ And this I say lest anyone should beguile you with enticing words. 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 Therefore in the manner in which ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, according to the elements of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, 10 and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power. 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ; 12 buried together with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead. 13 ¶ And you, being dead in sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 blotting out the bill of the decrees that was against us, which was contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross {Gr. stauro – stake}, 15 and having spoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 16 ¶ Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or of the new moon or of the sabbath days, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of the Christ. 18 Let no one govern you according to their own will under pretext of humility and religion of angels, intruding into those things which they have not seen, vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, fed and united by its joints and bonds, grows in the increase of God. 20 For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, 21 touch not; taste not; handle not? 22 Which all perish with the using, because they are the commandments and doctrines of men, 23 which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the body, but they have absolutely no value against the appetites of the flesh. 3 1 ¶ If ye then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God. 2 Set your sight on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead and your life is hid with the Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also be manifested with him in glory. 5 ¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience, 7 in which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8 ¶ But now put ye also off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, putting off the old man with his deeds 10 and being clothed with the new man, who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one that created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, slave nor free: but Christ is all and in all. 12 ¶ Clothed, therefore, (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) with bowels of mercies, with kindness, with humility, with meekness, with tolerance, 13 forbearing one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a quarrel against another: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, into which likewise ye are called into one body, and be ye thankful. 16 Let the word of the Christ dwell in you in abundance in all wisdom, teaching you and exhorting you one to another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with grace singing in your hearts unto the Lord. 17 And whatever ye do whether in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God and Father by him. 18 ¶ Wives, be subject to your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened. 22 Slaves, in all things hearken unto your masters according to the flesh, not serving to be seen as those who only please men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God; 23 And whatever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men, 24 knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he that does wrong shall receive the wrong which he has done, now that there is no respect of persons. 4 1 ¶ Masters, do that which is just and right with your slaves, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. 2 ¶ Persevere in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving, 3 praying also together for us that God would open unto us the door of the word, to speak the mystery of the Christ, for which I am also in bonds, 4 that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. 5 ¶ Walk in wisdom towards outsiders, winning the occasion. 6 Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one. 7 ¶ All my affairs shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother and a faithful servant and fellow slave in the Lord, 8 whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your affairs and comfort your hearts, 9 with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all the things which are happening here. 10 Aristarchus, my fellowprisoner, salutes you, and Mark, nephew to Barnabas, (concerning whom ye have received commandments, if he comes unto you, receive him), 11 and Jesus, who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort unto me. 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand firm, perfect and fulfilled in all the will of God. 13 For I bear witness of him, that he has a great zeal for you and those that are in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis. 14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. 15 Salute the brethren who are in Laodicea and Nymphas and the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} which is in his house. 16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea. 17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to fulfil the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord. 18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.