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Paulus and Timotheos, slaves of Anointed Jesus,
To all of those holy ones in Anointed Jesus who are in Filippi, together with overseers
and servants.
1:2 Hello to you, and peace from God our Father and Lord Anointed
Jesus.
I thank my God about every memory of you, always, in my every prayer on behalf of all
of you, as I make the prayer with joy because of your sharing in the good message. From the
first day to the present, I have been persuaded of this same thing: that the one who began a good
deed in you will be completing it until the day of Anointed Jesus.
It is certainly right for me to have this attitude about all of you, on account of your
holding me in your hearts, both while I was in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of
the good message--all of you shared the gift together with me. For God is a witness of how I
yearn for all of you with the deep feelings of Anointed Jesus.
And I pray this: that your love may yet be more and more abundant in recognition and all
perception to the point of examining what things mean, so that you may be sincere and not a
cause of stumbling until the day of the Anointed One, after being filled with the fruit of Right
which exists through Anointed Jesus to God's glory and my praise.
12 Now I wish you to know, brothers, that the things which relate to me
transpired rather for the progress of the good message. And so, my bonds in the Anointed One
became apparent in the Praetorium and everywhere else. And the majority of the brothers in the
lord were persuaded by my bonds to be more abundantly emboldened to speak the message
fearlessly. Indeed, certain ones do this also on account of envy and strife, but some also are
heralding the Anointed One on account of goodwill. Indeed, these ones are doing it out of love,
knowing that I have been placed here for the defense of the good message. But those who are
announcing the Anointed One out of bigotry, not purely, are thinking to raise the affliction of my
bonds.
For what? It is still true that in every way, whether in deception or in truth, the
Anointed One is being announced. I rejoice also in this, and I will continue to rejoice. Now I
know that this will result for salvation for me, on account of your asking and a supply of the
spirit of Anointed Jesus. This is according to my assumption and hope that I will be disgraced by
nothing, but (as always) that in all freedom of speech the Anointed One will be magnified in my
body--whether through life or through death.
21 For to me living is the Anointed One, and dying is profit. And if I am
living physically, this is a fruit of work for me, and I don't know what to choose! Now I have
these two things together: I have the strong desire to be released from the body and to be with
the Anointed One (for this is a great advantage). But to stay on in the flesh is more abundantly
needed on your account.
And since I am persuaded of this, I know that I will stay and continue on with all of you
for your progress and your joy in the faith, so that your boasting in Anointed Jesus may become
abundant in me, through my presence again with you.
27 Only be worthy citizens of the good message of the Anointed One, so that
whether I come and see you or whether I am absent and hear things about you, I would hear that
you are standing spiritually, working hard together as one soul for the faith of the good message,
and that you are not frightened by anything from those who oppose you--which is something that
pointsout destruction to them but salvation to you. And this is from God, because it was freely
given to you not only to trust in the Anointed One but also to suffer on his behalf. You are
having the same agony which you saw in me and which you are now hearing about.
2:1 Therefore, if there is any comfort in the Anointed One,
12 And so, my beloved, just as you always listened, not only when you were
in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and
trembling. For it is God who is working among you, that you would want and do things out of
goodwill. Do all the things without grumbling or disputing, so that you will be blameless and
harmless, blameless children in the midst of a crooked and misguided generation. Among them
you appear like stars in the universe, holding to the message of life, for me to boast about in the
day of Anointed Jesus--that I didn't run in vain or labor in vain.
But if I were also poured out as a sacrifice and temple service for your trust, I would
rejoice alone and would rejoice together with all of you. Now for this same thing, rejoice alone
also, and rejoice together with me. But I hope in Lord Jesus to send Timotheos to you quickly,
so that I may also be happy in my soul to know the things about you.
For I have no one whose soul is like his, who will care for your matters naturally. For
everyone is seeking their own interests--not the interests of Anointed Jesus. But you know the
proof about him--that as his father's child, he entered slavery with me for the good message.
Therefore indeed, I hope to send him, immediately, as soon as I see how things go with
me.
24 Now I am confident in the Lord that I too will come quickly. But I
regarded it as a necessity to send to you Epafroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow-soldier
but your envoy, and a religious servant of my need. I sent him since he was longing for all of you
and was depressed because you heard that he was sick. For indeed he was sick, fully about to
die, but God was merciful to him--not him only but also me--so that I would not have sorrow on
top of sorrow. Therefore, I sent him more eagerly, so that when you see him again you might
rejoice and I might be less sorrowful.
Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy, and hold all such people as valuable
because he was near the point of death on account of the Anointed One's work, risking his life so
that he might fill up what lacked in your own religious service toward me. My brothers, what
remains is for you to rejoice in the Lord.
3:1 Indeed it is no problem for me to write the same things to you, but it is
your safety. Watch out for the dogs. Watch out for those who work bad things. Watch out for
the castrators. For we are the circumcision, those who are doing religious service to God
spiritually and are boasting in Anointed Jesus and who are not persuaded by the physical things.
However, I indeed was persuaded by the physical things. If someone else thinks he is persuaded
by physical things, I was more so:
Circumcised on my eighth day, from the race of Israel, a Hebrew of Hebrews from the
tribe of Ben-Yamin, a Perush according to the Torah, persecuting the assembly according to my
jealousy. I had become blameless according to what was right in the Torah.
Whatever things were to my profit, I have regarded these things as forfeit on account of
the Anointed One. On the contrary, no rather I regard all things to be forfeit on account of the
excellency of the knowledge of Anointed Jesus my Lord. On his account, I forfeited all things,
and I consider those things to be manure, so that I may be profited by the Anointed One, and so
that I may be found in him not to be holding to my justification which came from the Torah but
to that justification that came through the Anointed One's trust.
This is a justification from God based on trust: knowing him, and the power of
his resurrection, and sharing in his sufferings, conforming to his death, so that possibly I might
attain the resurrection from the dead. It is not true that I have received it already, [or have been
embraced already,] or have been made complete already. But I am pursuing it, so I may also lay
hold of that for which Anointed Jesus laid hold of me.
13 Brothers, I do not consider myself as having laid hold of it, but I consider
one thing: Forgetting the things that indeed are behind me, and stretching out toward what is in
front of me, I am pursuing the prize at the finish line--God's high calling in Anointed Jesus.
Therefore, as many as are complete, these people should have this attitude, and if you have any
other attitude, God will also reveal this to you. Nevertheless, regarding what we have
anticipated, let us keep in step with it.
Brothers, become imitators together of me, and watch those who are walking, just as you
have us as a type. For many people are walking as enemies of the cross of the Anointed One, as I
have told you often but now tell you while crying. Their end will be destruction, these people
whose god is their penis and whose glory is in their shame, these people who have earthly
attitudes.
For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which we are also expecting a savior, Lord
Anointed Jesus, who will change the scheme of our bodies of humiliation into a form like his
body of glory, according to the working of his power to also arrange all things under himself.
4:1 And so, my beloved brothers whom I long for, my joy and crown, stand in
the Lord, O beloved ones! I advise Euodia and I advise Suntuche to have the same attitude in the
Lord. And I ask you also, genuine yoke partner, to help those women, who contended together
with me in the good message, along with Clementus, and the remaining co-workers, whose
names are in the scroll of life.
4 Always rejoice in the Lord. Again I say it: rejoice. Let your gentleness
be known to all people. The Lord is near. "Do not be anxious about anything," but in all things
let your requests be made known to God with prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, and
God's peace, which is beyond every mind, will guard your hearts and your minds in Lord
Jesus.
This remains, brothers: whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is just, whatever is
pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is reputable--if there is any virtue and if there is any praise,
consider these things. Also, whatever you learned and received and heard and saw in me, put
these things into practice, and the God of peace will be with you.
10 Now I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, because already you have revived your
concern for me. You have been concerned for me, but without any opportunity to do anything.
It is not that I'm saying this about what I lack, for I am content to be in whatever situations I'm
in. I know both how to be of humble means and how to have abundance. I have experienced
everything, and in all ways--both to be well fed and to be hungry, both to have abundance and to
lack. I am strong enough for everything in the one who empowers me.
14 But you did well in sharing together with me in the affliction. You know
also, Filippians, that at the beginning of the good message, when I was departing from
Makedonia, no assembly shared with me in the message of giving and receiving except for you
alone, because in Thessalonike also, both one time and a second, you sent what I needed. It is
not that I am hunting the gift, but that I am hunting the fruit which is growing in your account.
But I have all things fully, and I have abundance. Now I am filled, having received things from
you from Epafroditus. It is a smell with a good odor, an acceptable sacrifice which is well
pleasing to God. Now my God will fill every need of yours, according to his wealth in glory in
Anointed Jesus.
20 Now to God also, our Father, be the glory for ever and ever.
A-mein.
Greet everyone who is holy in Anointed Jesus. Those brothers who are with me greet
you. All of the holy ones greet you, but especially those from the household of Caesar.
The favor of the Lord, Anointed Jesus, be with your spirits. A-mein.
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