Paul exhorts to unity.

CHAP. IV.

EPHESIANS.

Against fornication. mer conversation the old man, which is cor

I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the rupt according to the deceitful lusts; Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy 23 And be renewed in the Spirit of of the vocation wherewith ye are called, your mind; 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love;

3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

27 Neither give place to the devil.

28 Let him that stole steal no more! but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth..

29 Let no corrupt communication-pro

8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascend-ceed out of your mouth, but that which is ed up on high, he led captivity captive, and good to the use of edifying, that it may gave gifts unto men. minister grace unto the hearers.

9 Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.

30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

11 And he gave some, apostles; and 32 And be ye kind one to another, tensome, prophets; and some, evangelists; der-hearted, forgiving one another, even as and some, pastors and teachers; God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. CHAP. V.

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for

the work of the ministry, for the edifying

of the body of Christ :

BE ye therefore followers of God as

dear children;

13 Till we all come in the unity of the 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of loved us; and hath given himself for us an God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetof the stature of the fulness of Christ : smelling savour.

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive:

15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nór jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous 16 From whom the whole body fitly man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritjoined together and compacted by that ance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. which every joint supplieth, according to 6 Let no man deceive you with vain the effectual working in the measure of words: for because of these things cometh every part, maketh increase of the body the wrath of God upon the children of disunto the edifying of itself in love. obedience.

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

8 For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth;) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

19 Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

21 If so be that ye have heard him, and 12 For it is a shame even to speak of have been taught by him, as the truth is in those things which are done of them in Jesus:

22 That ye put off concerning the for

secret.

13 But all things that are reproved, are

CHAP. VI.

Of servants and masters. made manifest by the light for whatso- 5 Servants, be obedient to them that ever doth make manifest is light. are your masters according to the flesh, 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that with fear and trembling, in singleness of sleepest, and arise from the dead, and your heart, as unto Christ;

6 Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive 18 And be not drunk with wine, where- of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. in is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 9 And, ye masters, do the same things 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms, unto them, forbearing threatening: knowand hymns, and spiritual songs, singing ing that your Master also is in heaven; and making melody in your heart to the neither is there respect of persons with him. Lord,

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the church and he is the Saviour of the body. 13 Wherefore, take unto you the whole 24 Therefore as the church is subject armour of God, that ye may be able to unto Christ, so let the wives be to their withstand in the evil day, and having done own husbands in every thing. all, to stand.

CHILDREN, obey your parents in the same purpose, that ye might know our af

The Epistle of PAUL, the Apostle, to the PHILIPPIANS.

CHAP. I.

fied in my body, whether it be by life, or

PAUL and Timotheus, the servants of by death.

Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons :

2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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

8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

24 Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation,

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

29 For unto you it is given in the behalf 10 That ye may approve things that are of Christ, not only to believe on him, but excellent; that ye may be sincere and also to suffer for his sake; without offence till the day of Christ;

11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me. CHAP. II.

IF there be therefore any consolation in 12 But I would ye should understand, Christ, if any comfort of love, if any brethren, that the things which happened fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and unto me have fallen out rather unto the mercies, furtherance of the gospel;

2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-mind

13 So that my bonds in Christ are mani- ed, having the same love, being of one acfest in all the palace, and in all other places; cord, of one mind.

14 And many of the brethren in thej 3 Let nothing be done through strife or Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let much more bold to speak the word without fear.

15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will. 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

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

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

19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

20 According to my earnest expectation, and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ shall be magni

each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men :

8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

Timotheus commended.

CHAP. III.

Against false teachers. 11 And that every tongue should confess you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of you it is safe. God the Father.

2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil-workers,

12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have beware of the concision. always obeyed, not as in my presence only, 3 For we are the circumcision, which but now much more in my absence, work worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in out your own salvation with fear and trem- Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the bling. flesh. 13 For it is God which worketh in you. 4 Though I might also have confidence both to will and to do of his good pleasure. in the flesh. If any other man thinketh 14 Do all things without murmurings that he hath whereof he might trust in the and disputings: flesh, I more:

15 That ye may be blameless and harm- 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the less, the sons of God, without rebuke, in stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching among whom ye shine as lights in the the law, a Pharisee; world;

6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the 16 Holding forth the word of life; that church; touching the righteousness which I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I is in the law, blameless. have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

8 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, 19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send 9 And be found in him, not having mine Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also own righteousness, which is of the law, may be of good comfort, when I know but that which is through the faith of Christ, your state.

20 For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state.

21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

22 But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

the righteousness which is of God by faith:

10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death

11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

12 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.

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have 25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send apprehended: but this one thing I do, forto you Epaphroditus, my brother, and getting those things which are behind, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, reaching forth unto those things which are but your messenger, and he that ministered before,

to my wants.

14 I press toward the mark for the 26 For he longed after you all, and was prize of the high calling of God in Christ full of heaviness, because that ye had heard Jesus.

that he had been sick.

15 Let us therefore, as many as be per27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto fect, be thus minded and if in any thing death: but God had mercy on him; and ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal not on him only, but on me also, lest I even this unto you. should have sorrow upon sorrow.

16 Nevertheless, whereto we have al28 I sent him therefore the more care- ready attained, let us walk by the same fully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rule, let us mind the same thing. rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrow- 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, ful. and mark them which walk so as ye have 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord us for an ensample. with all gladness; and hold such in repu- 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ :

tation.

30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. CHAP. III. INALLY, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to

FIN

19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

20 For our conversation is in heaven;

Paul exhorts to

COLOSSIANS.

religious joy in Christ. from whence also we look for the Saviour, flourished again; wherein ye were also the Lord Jesus Christ: careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

21 Who shall change our vile body, that 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: it may be fashioned like unto his glorious for I have learned, in whatsoever state I body, according to the working whereby am, therewith to be content. he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

THER

CHAP. IV.

HEREFORE, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my afflic tion.

3 And I entreat thee also, true yoke-fel- 15 Now, ye Philippians, know also, that low, help those women which laboured in the beginning of the gospel, when I dewith me in the gospel, with Clement also, parted from Macedonia, no church comand with other my fellow-labourers, whose municated with me as concerning giving names are in the book of life. and receiving, but ye only.

4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again

I say, Rejoice.

5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

6 Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made

known unto God.

7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

19 But my God shall supply all your 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things need according to his riches in glory by are true, whatsoever things are honest, Christ Jesus.

whatsoever things are just, whatsoever 20 Now unto God and our Father be things are pure, whatsoever things are glory for ever and ever. Amen. lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do and the God of peace shall be with you.

10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath

21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet

you.

22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Cesar's household.

23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

¶ It was written to the Philippians from Rome, by Epaphroditus.

The Epistle of PAUL, the Apostle, to the COLOSSIANS.

CHAP. I.

the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it

PA AUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by doth also in you, since the day ye heard of

the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel :

6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all]

it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11 Strengthened with all might, accord