Philippians 4

CHAPTER 4

¹Therefore, my brethren most dear-worthy and most desired, my joy and my crown, so stand ye in the Lord, most dear brethren .

²I pray Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, to understand the same thing in the Lord.

³Also I pray and thee, germane fellow, help thou those women that travailed with me in the gospel, with Clement and other mine helpers, whose names be in the book of life.

⁴Joy ye in the Lord evermore; again I say, joy ye.

⁵Be your patience [or your temperance] known to all men; the Lord is nigh.

⁶Be ye nothing busy, but in all prayer and beseeching, with doing of thankings, be your askings known at God.

⁷And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus.

⁸From henceforth, brethren, what-ever things be sooth, whatever things chaste, whatever things just, whatever things holy, whatever things able to be loved, [or amiable, or lovable] , whatever things of good fame, if any virtue, if any praising of discipline, think ye these things,

⁹that also ye have learned, and taken, and heard, and seen in me. Do ye these things, and God of peace shall be with you.

¹⁰But I joyed greatly in the Lord, that sometime afterward ye flowered again to feel for me, as also ye feeled. But ye were occupied,

¹¹I say not as for need, for I have learned to be sufficient in which things I am.

¹²And I know also how to be lowed, [or how to be bowed, or meeked] , I know also how to have plenty [or how to abound] . Every-where and in all things I am taught to be [full] -filled, and to hunger, and to abound, and to suffer mis-ease.

¹³I may all things in him that comforteth me.

¹⁴Nevertheless ye have done well, communing to my tribulation.

¹⁵For ye, Philippians, know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communed with me in reason, of thing given and taken, but ye alone.

¹⁶Which sent to Thessalonica once and twice also into use to me.

¹⁷Not for I seek gift, but I require, [or seek again] , fruit abounding in your reason.

¹⁸For I have all things, and abound; I am [full] -filled [or replete] with those things taken of Epaphroditus, which ye sent into the odour of sweetness, a covenable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

¹⁹And my God [ful] fill all your desire, by his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

²⁰But to God and our Father be glory into worlds of worlds. Amen.

²¹Greet ye well every holy man in Christ Jesus. Those brethren that be with me, greet you well.

²²All holy men greet you well, most soothly they that be of the emperor’s [or of Caesar’s] house.

²³The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.