# Philippians Corpus: World English Bible Language: English Script: Latin Edition: World English Bible, 2020 stable text edition Source: https://ebible.org/eng-web/index.htm License: https://ebible.org/eng-web/copyright.htm ## Chapters - [Chapter 1](/texts/bible/en/web/philippians/001.md) (30 verses) - [Chapter 2](/texts/bible/en/web/philippians/002.md) (30 verses) - [Chapter 3](/texts/bible/en/web/philippians/003.md) (21 verses) - [Chapter 4](/texts/bible/en/web/philippians/004.md) (23 verses) ## Chapter 1 ### Verse 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants: ### Verse 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ### Verse 3 I thank my God whenever I remember you, ### Verse 4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, ### Verse 5 for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; ### Verse 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. ### Verse 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace. ### Verse 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. ### Verse 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment, ### Verse 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ, ### Verse 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. ### Verse 12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News, ### Verse 13 so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ, ### Verse 14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear. ### Verse 15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will. ### Verse 16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains; ### Verse 17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News. ### Verse 18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice. ### Verse 19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ### Verse 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. ### Verse 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ### Verse 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose. ### Verse 23 But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. ### Verse 24 Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake. ### Verse 25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith, ### Verse 26 that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again. ### Verse 27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News; ### Verse 28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God. ### Verse 29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf, ### Verse 30 having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me. ## Chapter 2 ### Verse 1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, ### Verse 2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; ### Verse 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; ### Verse 4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. ### Verse 5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, ### Verse 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, ### Verse 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. ### Verse 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross. ### Verse 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, ### Verse 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, ### Verse 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ### Verse 12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ### Verse 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure. ### Verse 14 Do all things without complaining and arguing, ### Verse 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, ### Verse 16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain. ### Verse 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. ### Verse 18 In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me. ### Verse 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. ### Verse 20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. ### Verse 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. ### Verse 22 But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News. ### Verse 23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me. ### Verse 24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly. ### Verse 25 But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need, ### Verse 26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick. ### Verse 27 For indeed he was sick nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. ### Verse 28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. ### Verse 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor, ### Verse 30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me. ## Chapter 3 ### Verse 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. ### Verse 2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision. ### Verse 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; ### Verse 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: ### Verse 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; ### Verse 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. ### Verse 7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ. ### Verse 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ ### Verse 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith, ### Verse 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death, ### Verse 11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. ### Verse 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. ### Verse 13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, ### Verse 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ### Verse 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. ### Verse 16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind. ### Verse 17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example. ### Verse 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, ### Verse 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. ### Verse 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ### Verse 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself. ## Chapter 4 ### Verse 1 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. ### Verse 2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. ### Verse 3 Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. ### Verse 4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!” ### Verse 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. ### Verse 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. ### Verse 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. ### Verse 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, 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 anything worthy of praise, think about these things. ### Verse 9 Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you. ### Verse 10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity. ### Verse 11 Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. ### Verse 12 I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. ### Verse 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ### Verse 14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction. ### Verse 15 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only. ### Verse 16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need. ### Verse 17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account. ### Verse 18 But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God. ### Verse 19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ### Verse 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen. ### Verse 21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. ### Verse 22 All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household. ### Verse 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.