Philippians 1:1-18 KJV


Philippians 1:1-18 Paul and Ti-mo'-the-us, the servants of Je'-sus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Je'-sus which are at Phi-lip'-pi, with the bishops and deacons;

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Farther, and from the Lord Je'-sus Christ.

I thank my God upon 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 until now;

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Je'-sus Christ;

Even as it is meet for me 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 are all partakers of my grace.

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Je'-sus Christ.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ,

Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Je'-sus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will;

The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds;

But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

1 Timothy 3:8-16 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

Even so must their wives be grace, not slanders, sober, faithful in all things.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Je'-sus.

These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly;

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gen'-tiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.