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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
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For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
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If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to youward:
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How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
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Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
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Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
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That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
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Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
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Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
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And to make all
men
see what
is
the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
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To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly
places
might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
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According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
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In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
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Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
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For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
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That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
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That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
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May be able to comprehend with all saints what
is
the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
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And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
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Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
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Unto him
be
glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
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I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
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With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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There is
one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
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One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
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One God and Father of all, who
is
above all, and through all, and in you all.
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But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
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Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
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(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
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He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
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And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
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For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
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That we
henceforth
be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,
and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
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But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head,
even
Christ:
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From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
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Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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But ye have not so learned Christ;
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If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
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That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
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And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
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And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
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Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
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Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
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Neither give place to the devil.
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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with
his
hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
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And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
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And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
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Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
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And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
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Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
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For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
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Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
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For ye were sometimes darkness, but now
are ye
light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
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(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
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Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
them.
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For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
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See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
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Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord
is.
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And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
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Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
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Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
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Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so
let
the wives
be
to their own husbands in every thing.
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
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For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
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For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
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This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife
see
that she reverence
her
husband.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
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That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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Servants, be obedient to them that are
your
masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
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Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
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With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
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Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether
he be
bond or free.
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And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
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Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
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Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places.
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Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
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And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
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Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
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And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
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And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
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For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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But that ye also may know my affairs,
and
how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:
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Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and
that
he might comfort your hearts.
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Peace
be
to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Grace
be
with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians
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Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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Grace
be
unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and
from
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
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Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
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For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
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Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform
it
until the day of Jesus Christ:
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Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
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For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and
in
all judgment;
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That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
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Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
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But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things
which happened
unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
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So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other
places;
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And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
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Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
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The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
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But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
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What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
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For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
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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.
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For to me to live
is
Christ, and to die
is
gain.
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But if I live in the flesh, this
is
the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
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For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
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Nevertheless to abide in the flesh
is
more needful for you.
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And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
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That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
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Only let your conversation be as it becometh 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, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
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And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
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For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
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Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear
to be
in me.
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If
there be
therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
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Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love,
being
of one accord, of one mind.
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Let
nothing
be done
through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
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But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
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And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
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That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
things
in heaven, and
things
in earth, and
things
under the earth;
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And
that
every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
his
good pleasure.
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Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
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That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
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For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
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But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
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For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
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For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
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But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
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Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
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But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
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Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
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For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
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For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
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I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
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Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
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Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
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Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed
is
not grievous, but for you
it is
safe.
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Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
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For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
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Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
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Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel,
of
the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
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Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
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But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
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Yea doubtless, and I count all things
but
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,
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And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
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If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
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Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
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Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but
this
one thing
I do,
forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
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I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
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Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
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Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
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(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping,
that they are
the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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Whose end
is
destruction, whose God
is their
belly, and
whose
glory
is
in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
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