kindly as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that whatever good each one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a freeman. And, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening, knowing also that their master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

9 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil; for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds]. Take therefore the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and having put on the cuirass of righteousness, and bound your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; over all, taking the shield of the faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of evil. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion with the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints, and for me, that a word may be given me at the opening of my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds, that I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.

10 But that you may also know the things concerning me, how I do, Tichycus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will inform you of all things; whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that you may know the things concerning us and that he may comfort your hearts. Peace and love be to the brothers with faith, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with constancy.

1 PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 I thank my God at every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day till now, having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ, as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you being all partakers of my grace. For God is my witness, how much I desire you all with the tender affections of Christ Jesus. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding, that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

3 But I wish you to know, brothers, that the things as to me have resulted in the advancement of the gospel, so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the Prætorium and in all other places, and many of the brothers having been made confident by my bonds in the Lord have more abundant courage to speak the word without fear. For some indeed preach Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good will; those from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel, but those from contention preach Christ not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for my bonds. What then? nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached, and in this I rejoice. But I also will rejoice; for I know that this will result

in salvation to me, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to my expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. Because for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. But if to live in the flesh [is allowed me], I have this fruit of my work, and which I shall choose I know not. But I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far better; but to continue in the flesh is more necessary for you. And fully believing this, I know that I shall continue, and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of the faith, that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my coming again to you.

4 Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel, terrified in nothing by the adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God; because it was given to you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for him, having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear of in me.

5 If therefore there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort in love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and compassions, fulfil my joy, that you have the same mind, having the same love, sympathizing with each other, having one opinion. Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each esteem others better than himself, and let each consider not his own interests, but also those of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God; but he abased himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of man, and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient even till death, and the death of the cross. Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

6 And so, my beloved, as you always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for God works in you both to will and to work of his good pleasure. Do all things without complainings and disputations, that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world, holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain. But if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate you all; do you also rejoice with the same joy and congratulate me.

7 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you. shortly, that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs. For I have no one like minded who really will care for your interests; for all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send to you as soon as I know how it will be with me; and I hope in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

8 But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, the brother and my fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, but your apostle and servant of my need, for he greatly desired you all and was anxious, because you heard that he was sick. For indeed he was sick nigh to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him again you may rejoice and I be less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in estimation, because on account of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly for his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.

CHAPTER II.

JUDAIZING TEACHERS, EXHORTATIONS,

MENTS, ETC.

ACKNOWLEDG

1 FINALLY, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord; for to write the same things to you is not grievous to me, and is safe for you.

Beware of the dogs, beware of evil laborers, beware of the concision. We are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and trust not in the flesh, although I have ground of confidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks he may trust in the flesh, I [may] more; circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, as to the law a Pharisee, as to zeal persecuting the church, as to righteousness by the law being blameless. But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ. But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having my righteousness by the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by the faith, that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, that I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ. I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before, I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us, as many as are perfect therefore, be of this mind; and if any one thinks at all otherwise, God shall also reveal this to you; but in what we have attained, in this let us walk.

2 Be followers of me, brothers, and observe those who walk so as you have us for an example. For many walk, of whom I told you often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things. But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our humble body, and make it like his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to subject all things to himself. So, my beloved and much desired brothers, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, beloved.

3 I beseech Euodias and I beseech Syntyche to have the same