\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Philippians}
{\MT Paul’s Letter to the Philippians

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Paul
and
Timothy,
servants
of Yeshua
the
Messiah,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
“Messiah” means “Anointed One”.}
to
all
the
holy
ones
in
Messiah Yeshua
who
are
at
Philippi,
with
the
overseers\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:1 }
or, superintendents, or bishops}
and
servants:\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:1 }
Or, shammashim}
\VS{2}Grace
to
you
and
peace
from
God
our
Father
and
the
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}I
thank
my
God whenever
I remember
you,
\VS{4}always
in
every request
of
mine
on
behalf
of
you
all,
making
my
requests
with
joy,
\VS{5}for
your partnership\FTNT{§}{{\FR 1:5 }
The word translated “partnership” (κοινωνίᾳ) also means “fellowship” and “sharing”.}
in furtherance
of
the
Good
News
from
the
first
day
until
now;
\VS{6}being
confident
of
this
very
thing,
that
he
who
began
a
good
work
in
you
will
complete
it
until
the
day
of Yeshua
the
Messiah.
\VS{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 defence
and
confirmation
of
the
Good
News,
you
all
are
partakers
with
me
of
grace.
\VS{8}For
God
is
my
witness,
how
I
long
after
all
of
you
in
the
tender mercies
of
Messiah Yeshua.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}This
I
pray,
that
your
love
may
abound
yet
more
and
more
in
knowledge
and
all
discernment,
\VS{10}so
that
you
may
approve
the
things
that
are
excellent,
that
you
may
be
sincere
and
without offence
to
the
day
of
Messiah,
\VS{11}being
filled
with
the
fruits
of
righteousness
which
are
through Yeshua
the
Messiah,
to
the
glory
and
praise
of
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Now
I
desire
to
have
you
know,
brothers,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:12 }
The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”}
that
the
things
which
happened
to
me
have
turned out
rather
to
the
progress
of
the
Good
News,
\VS{13}so
that
it
became
evident
to
the
whole
palace\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:13 }
or, praetorian
}
guard,
and
to
all
the
rest,
that
my
bonds
are
in
Messiah,
\VS{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.
\VS{15}Some
indeed
proclaim
Messiah
even out
of
envy
and
strife,
and
some
also out
of
good
will.
\VS{16}The former insincerely proclaim Messiah
from selfish ambition, thinking
that
they
add affliction
to
my chains;
\VS{17}but
the latter
out
of love, knowing
that
I
am appointed
for
the defence
of
the Good News.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}What
does
it matter?
Only
that
in
every
way,
whether
in pretence
or
in
truth,
Messiah
is
proclaimed.
I
rejoice
in
this,
yes,
and
will
rejoice.
\VS{19}For
I
know
that
this
will
turn out
to
my
salvation
through
your
prayers
and
the supply
of
the
Spirit
of Yeshua
the
Messiah,
\VS{20}according
to
my
earnest
expectation
and
hope,
that
I
will
in
no
way
be disappointed,
but
with
all
boldness,
as
always,
now
also
Messiah
will
be
magnified
in
my
body,
whether
by
life
or
by
death.
\VS{21}For
to
me
to
live
is
Messiah,
and
to
die
is
gain.
\VS{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.
\VS{23}But
I
am
hard pressed
between
the
two,
having
the
desire
to
depart
and
be
with
Messiah,
which
is
far
better.
\VS{24}Yet
to
remain
in
the
flesh
is
more needful
for
your
sake.
\VS{25}Having
this
confidence,
I
know
that
I
will
remain, yes,
and
remain
with
you
all
for
your
progress
and
joy
in
the
faith,
\VS{26}that
your
boasting\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:26 }
or, rejoicing}
may
abound
in
Messiah Yeshua
in
me
through
my
presence
with
you
again.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}Only
let
your
way
of
life
be
worthy
of
the
Good
News
of
Messiah,
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;
\VS{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.
\VS{29}Because
it
has
been
granted
to
you
on
behalf
of
Messiah,
not
only
to
believe
in
him,
but
also
to
suffer
on
his
behalf,
\VS{30}having
the
same
conflict
which
you
saw
in
me
and
now
hear
is
in
me.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}If
therefore
there
is
any
exhortation
in
Messiah,
if
any
consolation
of
love,
if
any
fellowship
of
the
Spirit,
if
any
tender
mercies
and
compassion,
\VS{2}make
my
joy
full
by
being
like-minded,
having
the
same
love,
being
of
one accord,
of
one
mind;
\VS{3}doing
nothing
through rivalry
or
through
conceit,
but
in
humility,
each counting
others better
than
himself;
\VS{4}each
of
you
not
just
looking
to
his
own
things,
but
each
of
you
also
to
the
things
of
others.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Have
this
in
your
mind,
which
was
also
in
Messiah Yeshua,
\VS{6}who, existing
in
the
form
of
God,
didn’t
consider
equality
with
God
a
thing
to
be
grasped,
\VS{7}but
emptied
himself,
taking
the
form
of
a
servant,
being
made
in
the
likeness
of
men.
\VS{8}And
being
found
in human form,
he
humbled
himself,
becoming
obedient
to
the
point
of
death,
yes,
the
death
of
the
cross.
\VS{9}Therefore
God
also
highly
exalted
him,
and
gave
to
him
the
name
which
is
above
every
name,
\VS{10}that
at
the
name
of Yeshua
every
knee
should
bow,
of
those
in
heaven,
those
on
earth,
and
those
under
the
earth,
\VS{11}and
that
every
tongue
should
confess
that Yeshua
the
Messiah
is
Lord,
to
the
glory
of
God
the
Father.
\par }{\PP \VS{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.
\VS{13}For
it
is
God
who
works
in
you
both
to
will
and
to
work
for
his
good
pleasure.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Do
all
things
without
complaining
and
arguing,
\VS{15}that
you
may
become
blameless
and harmless,
children
of
God
without defect
in
the
middle
of
a
crooked
and
perverse
generation, amongst
whom
you
are
seen
as
lights
in
the
world,
\VS{16}holding
up
the
word
of
life,
that
I
may
have
something
to
boast
in
the
day
of
Messiah
that
I
didn’t
run
in
vain
nor labour
in
vain.
\VS{17}Yes,
and
if
I
am
poured out
on
the
sacrifice
and
service
of
your
faith,
I
am
glad
and
rejoice
with
you
all.
\VS{18}In
the
same
way,
you
also
should
be
glad
and
rejoice
with
me.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}But
I
hope
in
the
Lord Yeshua
to
send
Timothy
to
you
soon,
that
I
also
may
be cheered up
when
I
know
how
you
are doing.
\VS{20}For
I
have
no
one else like-minded,
who
will truly
care
about
you.
\VS{21}For
they
all
seek
their
own,
not
the
things
of Yeshua
the
Messiah.
\VS{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.
\VS{23}Therefore
I
hope
to
send
him
at
once,
as soon
as
I
see
how
it
will go
with
me.
\VS{24}But
I
trust
in
the
Lord
that
I
myself
also
will
come
shortly.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}But
I
thought
it
necessary
to
send
to
you
Epaphroditus,
my
brother,
fellow
worker,
fellow
soldier,
and
your emissary
and servant
of
my
need,
\VS{26}since
he longed
for
you
all,
and
was
very
troubled
because
you
had
heard
that
he
was
sick.
\VS{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.
\VS{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.
\VS{29}Receive
him
therefore
in
the
Lord
with
all
joy,
and
hold
such
people
in honour,
\VS{30}because
for
the
work
of
Messiah
he
came
near
to
death, risking
his
life
to supply
that
which
was
lacking
in
your
service towards
me.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{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.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Beware
of
the
dogs;
beware
of
the
evil
workers;
beware
of
the
false
circumcision.
\VS{3}For
we
are
the
circumcision,
who
worship
God
in
the
Spirit,
and
rejoice
in
Messiah Yeshua,
and
have
no
confidence
in
the
flesh;
\VS{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:
\VS{5}circumcised
the
eighth
day,
of
the stock
of
Israel,
of
the
tribe
of
Benjamin, a
Hebrew
of
Hebrews; concerning
the
law, a
Pharisee;
\VS{6}concerning
zeal,
persecuting
the
assembly; concerning
the
righteousness
which
is
in
the
law,
found
blameless.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}However,
I
consider
those
things
that
were
gain
to
me
as
a
loss
for
Messiah.
\VS{8}Yes most
certainly,
and
I
count
all
things
to
be
a
loss
for
the excellency
of
the
knowledge
of
Messiah Yeshua,
my
Lord,
for
whom
I
suffered
the
loss
of
all
things,
and
count
them
nothing
but refuse,
that
I
may
gain
Messiah
\VS{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
Messiah,
the
righteousness
which
is
from
God
by
faith,
\VS{10}that
I
may
know
him
and
the
power
of
his
resurrection,
and
the
fellowship
of
his
sufferings, becoming conformed
to
his
death,
\VS{11}if
by any
means
I
may
attain
to
the
resurrection
from
the
dead.
\VS{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
Messiah Yeshua.
\par }{\PP \VS{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,
\VS{14}I
press
on towards
the
goal
for
the
prize
of
the high
calling
of
God
in
Messiah Yeshua.
\VS{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.
\VS{16}Nevertheless,
to
the extent
that
we
have already
attained, let’s
walk
by
the
same rule. Let’s be
of
the
same mind.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Brothers,
be
imitators
together
of
me,
and note
those
who
walk
this
way,
even
as
you
have us
for
an
example.
\VS{18}For
many
walk,
of
whom
I
told
you
often,
and
now
tell
you
even
weeping,
as
the
enemies
of
the
cross
of
Messiah,
\VS{19}whose
end
is
destruction,
whose
god
is
the
belly,
and
whose
glory
is
in
their
shame,
who
think
about
earthly
things.
\VS{20}For
our
citizenship
is
in
heaven,
from
where
we
also
wait
for
a Saviour,
the
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah,
\VS{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.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore,
my
brothers,
beloved
and longed
for,
my
joy
and
crown,
stand
firm
in
the
Lord
in
this
way,
my
beloved.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}I
exhort
Euodia,
and
I
exhort
Syntyche,
to
think
the
same
way
in
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Yes,
I
beg
you
also,
true partner,
help
these
women,
for
they laboured
with
me
in
the
Good
News
with
Clement
also,
and
the
rest
of
my
fellow
workers,
whose
names
are
in
the
book
of
life.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Rejoice
in
the
Lord
always!
Again
I
will
say, “Rejoice!”
\VS{5}Let
your
gentleness
be
known
to
all
men.
The
Lord
is
at hand.
\VS{6}In
nothing
be
anxious,
but
in
everything,
by
prayer
and
petition
with
thanksgiving, let
your
requests
be
made
known
to
God.
\VS{7}And
the
peace
of
God,
which
surpasses
all
understanding,
will
guard
your
hearts
and
your thoughts
in
Messiah Yeshua.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Finally,
brothers,
whatever
things
are
true,
whatever
things
are honourable,
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.
\VS{9}Do
the
things
which
you learnt,
received,
heard,
and
saw
in
me,
and
the
God
of
peace
will
be
with
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{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.
\VS{11}Not
that
I
speak
because
of
lack,
for
I
have learnt
in
whatever state
I
am,
to
be
content
in
it.
\VS{12}I
know how
to
be
humbled,
and
I
also
know how
to
abound.
In
any
and
all
circumstances
I
have learnt
the
secret
both
to
be
filled
and
to
be
hungry,
both
to
abound
and
to
be
in
need.
\VS{13}I
can
do
all
things
through Messiah
who
strengthens
me.
\VS{14}However
you
did
well
that
you shared
in
my
affliction.
\VS{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.
\VS{16}For
even
in
Thessalonica
you
sent
once
and
again
to
my
need.
\VS{17}Not
that
I
seek
for
the
gift,
but
I
seek
for
the
fruit
that
increases
to
your
account.
\VS{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.
\VS{19}My
God
will
supply
every
need
of
yours
according
to
his
riches
in
glory
in
Messiah Yeshua.
\VS{20}Now
to
our
God
and
Father
be
the
glory
forever
and
ever!
Amen.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Greet
every
holy
one
in
Messiah Yeshua.
The
brothers
who
are
with
me
greet
you.
\VS{22}All
the
holy
ones
greet
you,
especially
those
who
are
of
Caesar’s
household.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}The
grace
of
the
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah
be
with
you
all. Amen.
\par }