Day 75 of 90

Phil 1:1–3:21

1:1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

1:2 Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 I thank my God whenever I remember you,

1:4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy,

1:5 for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

1:6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

1:7 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.

1:8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

1:9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

1:10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

1:11 being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

1:12 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;

1:13 so that it became evident to the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

1:14 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.

1:15 Some indeed proclaim Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

1:16 The former insincerely proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

1:17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

1:18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether out of false motives or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

1:19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

1:20 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.

1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

1:22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I do not make known what I will choose.

1:23 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

1:24 Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

1:25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

1:26 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

1:27 Only let your manner 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;

1:28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

1:29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

1:30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

2:1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

2:2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

2:3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

2:4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

2:5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

2:6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

2:8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

2:9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

2:11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

2:12 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.

2:13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

2:15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

2:16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

2:17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

2:18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

2:19 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.

2:20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

2:21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

2:22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

2:23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

2:25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;

2:26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.

2:27 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.

2:28 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.

2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,

2:30 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.

3:1 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.

3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

3:4 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:

3:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

3:6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

3:7 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

3:8 More than that, I count all things to be 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

3:9 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;

3:10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

3:11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

3:12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

3:13 Brothers, I do not regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to the things which are ahead,

3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

3:15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

3:16 Nevertheless, to what we have attained, to the same continue on.

3:17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

3:18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

3:21 who will change our lowly bodies into the likeness of his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.