4 and, ye fathers, provoke not your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline, and admonition of the Lord:

5 ye servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and awe, in singleness of your heart, as to the Christ;

6 not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

7 with good-will doing them service, as to the Lord, and not to man:

8 knowing, that whatever good thing each shall do, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he be bond or free:

9 and, ye masters, do the same to them, forbearing threatening; knowing, that both their and your Master is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

Lord, and in the power of his might:

11 put ye on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the devices of the devil.

12 For your conflict is not against flesh and blood only, but against principalities, against authorities, against the rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in high places:

13 wherefore, take to yourselves the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day; and, having done all, to stand:

14 stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justification;

15 and your feet shod with preparation of the gospel of

peace;

16 above all, taking the shield of faith, with which ye will be able to quench all the fiery 1 John, v. 4. darts of the wicked one:

17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18 praying always, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereto with all perseverance,

19 and with supplication for all the saints; and for me,

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CHAPTER I.

8 For, God is my witness how greatly I long after you

of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, together with the bishops and deacons, which are in Philippi :

2 grace and peace be to you from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ!

3 I thank my God in every remembrance of you, 4 (always, in all my prayers, making supplication for you all, with joy,)

5 for your fellowship in the gospel, from the first day until

now:

6 being confident of this; that he who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it against the day of Christ Jesus :

7 even as it is just for me to think this of you all, because ye have me in your hearts, both in my bonds and in my defence and confirmation of the gospel, as being partakers of my grace.

Jesus:

9 and for this I pray, That your love may abound yet more and more, in knowledge and in all judgment;

10 so that ye may approve the things that are most excellent; that ye may be sincere, and without failure, against the day of Christ:

11 being filled with the fruits of justification through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

12 But I would have you know, brethren, that the things that have befallen me, have rather tended to the advancement of the gospel;

13 so that my bonds are manifest to be for Christ, in all the palace, and in all other places;

14 and most of the brethren in the Lord, acquiring confidence from my bonds, are more exceeding bold to

speak the word of God without fear.

15 Some, indeed, preach Christ through envy and contention; but, some also through good will:

16 these do it through love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

17 but, those who do it through contention, preach Christ insincerely, thinking to add affliction to my bonds.

18 What then? That in every way, either in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice :

19 for I know, that this will turn to my salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be shamed in nothing; but that, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified, with all boldness, in my body, whether by my life, or by my death.

21 For to me, to live is good; but, to die is gain:

22 yet, if to live in the flesh is profitable to me, truly, I know not which to choose;

23 for I am held betwixt the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better;

24 but, to remain in the flesh is more needful for you:

25 and being persuaded of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you. all, for your advancement and joy in the faith;

26 that your rejoicing for me in Jesus Christ may be rendered more abundant, by my coming to you again.

27 Only, let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or am absent, I may hear of you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, striving together, with one mind, for the faith of the gospel,

28 and terrified in nothing by the adversaries: which is an evidence of perdition to them, but of your salvation, and that from God:

29 for, to you is granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in 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.

3 Let nothing be done through contention, nothing through vain glory; but, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others superior to themselves :

4 not each regarding his own concerns only, but each those also of others.

5 Let that mind be in you, which was even in Christ Jesus;

6 who, though subsisting in the form of God, regarded John, v. 17. not his equality with God as a prize;

Heb. ii. 16.

Acts, v. 43.

7 but stripped himself of it, and took the form of his servant, being made in the likeness of men :

8 and, having been found in fashion as a man, he abased himself, and became obedient to death, and that, the death of the cross:

9 wherefore also, God hath exalted him above all; and hath given him the name which is above every name, 10 that, in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of things in heaven, and on earth, and below the earth;

11 and, that every tongue should confess, that Jesus is Christ the Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but now much more in my ab

sence, work out your salvation 2 Pet. i. là with fear and trembling ;

13 for it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do, according to his good pleasure.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings;

15 that ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among Matt. xvi. whom ye shine as lights in Matt. v. 17. the world:

16 holding fast the word of life; that I may rejoice, in the day of Christ, that I have neither run in vain, nor laboured in vain:

Acts, ii. 40

17 yea, and if I be offered 2 Cor. xii. 20 up for the sacrifice and service

of
your faith, I joy, and rejoice
with you all :

18 and, for the same cause, ye also joy, and rejoice with me.

19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus, that I shall shortly send to you Timothy, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state;

20 for I have no one likeminded, who will so sincerely concern himself in your state: 21 for all seek their own ends, not those of Jesus Christ.

22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with a father, he hath served with me in the gospel:

23 him, therefore, I hope to