Hi, and welcome to His Words
are Life. I am Kelly Mowrer, and
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thank you for coming
to read with me today,
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in the wonderful word of God.
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Before we start,
let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so much
for the blessing of these words,
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that can be to us life and hope
and peace and joy and comfort.
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Be with us as we read,
that we may hear and understand,
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but perhaps
even more importantly
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that they will bear fruit, that
we may go out and act and be
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for you what you would have us
to be. That you will change us
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to be more and more like
you, to serve you better,
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so that your name may
be glorified in the earth.
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We love you so much, Amen.
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I am reading today from the
letter to the church at Ephesus
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that Paul wrote.
Ephesians, chapter six,
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and we begin with verse 14.
We are going to be reading about
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the armour of God, which is our
defense against all that would
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harm us, or destroy us, or
tempt us, or make us to fall.
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Stand therefore, having your
loins girt about with truth,
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having on the
breastplate of righteousness;
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and your feet shod with
the preparation of the gospel
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of peace; above all, taking the
shield of faith, wherewith ye
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shall be able to quench all
the fiery darts of the wicked.
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And take the helmet of salvation
and the sword of the Spirit,
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which is the word of God:
Praying always with all prayer
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and supplication in the Spirit,
and watching thereunto with all
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perseverance and
supplication for all saints;
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And for me, that
utterance may be given unto me,
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that I may open my mouth boldly,
to make known the mystery
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of the gospel, for which
I am an ambassador in bonds:
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that therein I may speak
boldly, as I ought to speak.
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But that ye also may
know my affairs, and how I do,
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Tychicus, a beloved brother and
faithful minister in the Lord,
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shall make known to you
all things: Whom I have sent
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unto you for the same purpose,
that ye might know our affairs,
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and that he might
comfort your hearts,
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Peace be to the
brethren, and love with faith,
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from God the Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Grace be with all them
that love our Lord Jesus Christ
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in sincerity. Amen.
Continuing to read Paul's letter
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to the church at Philippi,
the Philippians, chapter one and
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we are in the
King James Version.
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Paul and Timotheus, the
servants of Jesus Christ,
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to all the saints in Christ
Jesus which are at Philippi,
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with the bishops and deacons:
Grace be unto you, and peace,
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from God our Father, and
from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I thank my God upon
every remembrance of you,
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always in every prayer of
mine for you all making request
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with Joy, for your fellowship
in the gospel from the first day
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until now; being confident of
this very thing, that he which
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hath begun a good work in you
will perform it until the day
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of Jesus Christ: Even as it is
meet for me to think this of you
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all, because I have
you in my heart; inasmuch
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as both in my bonds, and in
the defense and confirmation
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of the gospel, ye all
are partakers of my grace.
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For God is my record, how
greatly I long after you all
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in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
And this I pray, that your love
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may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment;
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that ye may approve things that
are excellent; that ye may be
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sincere and without offence till
the day of Christ; Being filled
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with the fruits of righteousness
which are by Jesus Christ,
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unto the glory and praise of God
but I would ye should understand
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brethren, that the things which
happened unto me have fallen out
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rather unto the
furtherance of the gospel;
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so that my bonds in Christ
are manifest in all the palace,
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and in all other places; And
many of the brethren in the Lord
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waxing confident by my bonds,
are much more bold to speak
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the word without fear.
Some indeed preach Christ
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even of envy and strife;
and some also of good will;
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The one preach Christ of
contention, not sincerely,
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supposing to add
affliction to my bonds:
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But the other of love, knowing
that I am set for the defense
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of the gospel. What then?
notwithstanding, every way,
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whether in pretense or in
truth, Christ is preached;
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and I therein do
rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
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For I know that this
shall turn to my salvation
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through your prayer,
and the supply of the Spirit
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of Jesus Christ, according
to my earnest expectation
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and my hope, that in nothing I
shall be ashamed, but that with
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all boldness as always, so now
also Christ shall be magnified
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in my body, whether it
be by life, or by death.
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For to me to live is
Christ and to die is gain.
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But if I live in the flesh,
this is the fruit of my labour:
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Yet what I shall choose I
wot not, for I am in a strait
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betwixt two, having a desire to
depart, and to be with Christ;
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which is far better;
Nevertheless to abide
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in the flesh is more needful for
you. And having this confidence
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I know that I shall abide and
continue with you all for your
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furtherance and joy of faith;
That your rejoicing may be more
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abundant in Jesus Christ for
me by my coming to you again.
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Only let your conversation be as
it becometh the gospel of Christ
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that whether I come and see you,
or else be absent, I may hear
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of your affairs, that ye stand
fast in one spirit with one mind
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striving together for
the faith of the gospel;
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And in nothing terrified by our
adversaries: which is to them
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an evident token of perdition,
but to you of salvation,
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and that of God.. For unto
you it is given in the behalf of
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Christ not only to believe
on him, but also to suffer
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for his sake; Having the same
conflict which ye saw in me,
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and now hear to be in me.
We're reading from the book of
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Philippians, in the King James
version, now beginning chapter 2
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If there be therefore
any consolation in Christ,
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if any comfort of love, if
any fellowship of the Spirit,
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if any bowels and
mercies, fulfill ye my joy,
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that ye be like-minded,
having the same love,
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being of one accord of
one mind. Let nothing be done
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through strife or vain
glory; but in lowliness of mind
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let each esteem other
better than themselves.
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Look not every man on his own
things, but every man also on
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the things of others. Let this
mind be in you, which was also
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in Christ Jesus: Who, being in
the form of God, thought it not
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robbery to be equal
with God: But made himself
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of no reputation, and took
upon him the form of a servant,
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and was made in the likeness of
men: And being found in fashion
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as a man humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death,
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even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also hath highly
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exalted him, and given him a
name which is above every name:
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That at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow,
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of things in heaven, and things
in earth; and things under the
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earth; And that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ
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is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father. Wherefore, my beloved,
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as ye have always obeyed, not
as in my presence only, but now
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much more in my absence, work
out your own salvation with fear
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and trembling. For it
is God which worketh in you
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both to will and to
do of his good pleasure.
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Do all things without
murmurings and disputings:
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That ye may be blameless
and harmless, the sons of God,
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without rebuke, in the midst of
a crooked and perverse nation,
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among whom you shine as lights
in the world; Holding forth
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the word of life; that I may
rejoice in the day of Christ,
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that I have not run in
vain, neither laboured in vain.
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Yea, and if I be offered
upon the sacrifice and service
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of your faith, I joy
and rejoice with you all.
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For the same cause also do
ye joy, and rejoice with me.
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But I trust in the Lord Jesus to
send Timotheus shortly unto you,
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that I also may be of good
comfort, when I know your state.
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For I have no man like-minded,
who will naturally care
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for your state. For all
seek their own, not the things
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which are Jesus Christ's.
But ye know the proof of him,
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that, as a son with the
father, he hath served with me
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in the gospel. Him therefore
I hope to send presently,
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so soon as I shall see
how it will go with me.
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But I trust in the Lord that I
also myself shall come shortly.
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Yet, I supposed it necessary
to send to you Epaphroditus,
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my brother, and companion
in labour, and fellowsoldier,
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but your messenger, and he
that ministered to my wants.
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For he longed after you
all, and was full of heaviness,
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because that ye had
heard that he had been sick
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for indeed he was
sick nigh unto death:
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But God had mercy on him; and
not on him only, but on me also
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lest I should have sorrow upon
sorrow. I sent him therefore
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the more carefully, that when
ye see him again, ye may rejoice
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and that I may be
the less sorrowful.
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Receive him therefore in
the Lord with all gladness;
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and hold such in reputation:
Because for the work of Christ
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he was nigh unto
death, not regarding his life,
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to supply your lack
of service toward me.
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Continuing to read
from the King James version,
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Philippians, chapter
three: Finally, my brethren,
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rejoice in the Lord. To
write the same things to you,
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to me indeed is not grievous,
but for you it is safe.
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Beware of dogs,
beware of evil workers,
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beware of the concision.
For we are the circumcision,
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which worship God in the spirit,
and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
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and have no
confidence in the flesh,
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Though I might also
have confidence in the flesh.
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If any other man
thinketh that hath whereof
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he might trust in
the flesh, I more:
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Circumcised the eighth
day, of the stock of Israel,
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of the tribe of Benjamin,
an Hebrew of the Hebrews;
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as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Concerning zeal, persecuting
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the church;
touching the righteousness
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which is in the law, blameless.
But what things were gain to me,
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those I counted loss for Christ.
Yea doubtless, and I count all
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things but loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of
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Christ Jesus my Lord: for
whom I have suffered the loss
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of all things, and do count them
but dung, that I may win Christ,
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and be found in him, not
having mine own righteousness,
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which is of the law, but
that which is through the faith
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of Christ, the righteousness
which is of God by faith:
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That I may know him, and
the power of his resurrection,
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and the
fellowship of his sufferings,
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being made
conformable unto his death;
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if by any means I might
attain unto the resurrection
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of the dead. Not as
though I had already attained,
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either were already perfect: but
I follow after, if that I may
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apprehend that for which also
I am apprehended of Christ Jesus
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Brethren, I count not
myself to have apprehended:
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but this one thing I
do, forgetting those things
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which are behind and
reaching forth unto those things
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which are before, I press
toward the mark for the prize
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of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus.
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Let us therefore, as many
as be perfect, be thus minded:
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and if in anything
ye be otherwise minded,
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God shall reveal even
this unto you. Nevertheless,
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whereto we have
already attained, let us walk
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by the same rule, let
us mind the same thing.
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Brethren, be followers together
of me, and mark them which walk
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so as ye have us for an ensample
For many walk, of whom I have
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told you often, and now tell you
even weeping, that they are the
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enemies cross of Christ: whose
end is destruction, whose God
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is their belly, and
whose glory is in their shame,
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who mind earthly things. - For
our conversation is in heaven;
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from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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Who shall change our vile
body, that it may be fashioned
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like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby
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he is able even to
subdue all things unto himself.
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Chapter 4: Therefore my brethren
dearly beloved and longed for,
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my joy and crown, so stand fast
in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
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I beseech Euodias,
and beseech Syntyche,
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that they be of the
same mind in the Lord.
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and I entreat thee also, true
yoke-fellow, help those women
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which laboured with me in
the gospel, with Clement also
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and with other my fellow-
labourers whose names are in
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the book of life.
Rejoice in the Lord always:
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and again I say rejoice.
Let your moderation be known
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unto all men. The Lord is at
hand. Be careful for nothing;
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but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving
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let your requests
be made known unto God.
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And the peace which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your
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hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus.
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