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¶ Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth].
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
¶ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
¶ Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
¶ We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
¶ If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
¶ This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
¶ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.
¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide [there]. And she constrained us.
¶ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus [our] brother,
And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not [he]. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of [his] feet I am not worthy to loose.
¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
¶ And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
For if there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath, [and] not according to that he hath not.
¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ,
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