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- Paul & Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesus Christ: To all the saintes in Christ Iesus, whiche are at Philippos, with the bisshops & deacons:
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- Grace [be] vnto you, and peace fro God our father, and [from] the Lorde Iesus Christ.
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- I thanke my God, with all remembraunce of you,
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- ( Alwayes in all my prayer for all you, makyng prayer with gladnesse,)
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- For your felowship in the Gospell, fro the first day vntyll nowe.
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- And beyng perswaded of this same thyng, that he which hath begun good worke in you, wyll perfourme it vntyll the day of Iesus Christe,
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- As it becommeth me to iudge this of you al, because I haue you in my heart, and in my bondes, in the defence and confirmation of the Gospell, you all beyng partakers of my grace.
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- For God is my recorde howe greatly I long after you all, in the bowels of Iesus Christe.
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- And this I pray, that your loue may abounde yet more and more in knowledge, and in all vnderstandyng:
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- That ye maye discerne thynges that differ, that ye maye be pure, and without offence, tyll the day of Christe.
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- Beyng fylled with the fruites of righteousnesse, which [are] by Iesus Christ, vnto the glorie and prayse of God.
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- But I woulde ye should vnderstande brethren, that the thinges which [came] vnto me, hath come rather vnto the furtheraunce of the Gospell:
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- So that my bondes in Christe, are manifest, throughout all the iudgement hall, and in all other [places.]
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- And many of the brethren of the Lord, beyng incouraged through my bondes, dare more plentifully speake the word, without feare.
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- Some preache Christe of enuie & strife, and some of good wyll.
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- The one preache Christe of strife, not sincerely, supposyng to adde more affliction to my bondes:
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- But the others of loue, knowing that I am set to the defence of the Gospell.
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- What then?
So that Christe be preached any maner of way, whether it be by pretence, or by trueth, I ioy therein, and wyll ioy.
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- For I knowe that this shall turne to my saluation, through your prayer, and ministryng of the spirite of Iesus Christe,
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- Accordyng to my expectation, and my hope, yt in nothyng I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all boldnesse, as alwayes, so now also, Christ shalbe magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
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- For Christe [is] to me lyfe, and death [is] to me aduantage.
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- But if I lyue in the fleshe, this (is) the fruite of my labour, and what I shall chose, I wote not.
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- For I am in a strayte betwixt two, hauyng a desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which is much farre better.
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- Neuerthelesse, to abyde in ye fleshe, [is] more needefull for you.
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- And this am I sure of, that I shall abyde & continue with you all, for your furtheraunce and ioy of fayth,
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- That your reioysyng may be ye more aboundaunt in Iesus Christe for me, by my commyng to you agayne.
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- Only let your conuersation be, as it becommeth the Gospell of Christe: that whether I come and set you, or els be absent, I may yet heare of your matters, that ye continue in one spirite, in one soule, fyghtyng together for ye fayth of the Gospell.
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- And in nothyng fearyng your aduersaries, which is to them a token of perdition: but to you of saluatio, and that of God.
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- For vnto you it is geuen for Christe, not only this to beleue on hym: but also this, to suffer for his sake,
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- Hauing the same fight, which ye sawe in me, and nowe heare in me.
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