28 Let the stealer steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his own hands the thing which is good, that 29 he may have to impart to him that has need. Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful building up, that it may give grace 30 unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, 31 in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption. Let

all bitterness, and passion, and wrath, and clamour, and blasphemy, be taken away from you, with all viciousness. 32 And be good one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

CH. V. BECOME therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and delivered himself up for us an offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.

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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be even named among you, as becomes saints; 4 and filthiness, or foolish talking, or jesting, which are 5 not becoming; but rather thanksgiving; for of this ye are sure, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man who is an idolater, has an inheritance in 6 the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes 7 the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. Be 8 not therefore partakers with them; for ye were once dark

ness, but are now light in the Lord; walk as children 9 of light, (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and 10 righteousness and truth;) proving what is well pleasing 11 unto the Lord; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful 12 works of darkness, but rather even convict them. For the

things which are done by them in secret it is shameful 13 even to speak of: but all things when convicted by the light are manifested for every thing that is manifested is 14 light. Wherefore it is said, Awake thou that sleepest, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee. 15 See then how ye walk strictly, not as unwise but as 16 wise, buying up the opportunity, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore be not foolish, but understand what the will of

the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is riot, 18 but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to one another 19 in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks 20 always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; subjecting yourselves 21 one to another in the fear of Christ. Wives, unto their 22 own husbands as unto the Lord, because a husband is 23 head of the wife, as Christ also is head of the church; himself the saviour of the body. But as the church is 24 subjected to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ 25 also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, after cleansing it with the laver of 26 the water, by the word, that he might himself present to 27 himself the church, glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it might be holy and blameless. So ought the husbands to love their own wives as 28 their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes 29 and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the church, be- 30 cause we are members of his body; for this cause shall 31 a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery 32 is great; but I say it with respect to Christ and to the church. Nevertheless do ye also severally, each one of 33 you, so love his own wife as himself; and let the wife see that she fear the husband.

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CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honour thy father and mother, which is the first 2 commandment in point of promise; that it may be with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, 5 with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ; not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as 6 servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the spirit;

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7 with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to 8 men, knowing that each one, if he shall have done any

good thing, will receive the same from the Lord, whether 9 he be bond or free. And masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing the threatening; knowing that both their master and yours is in heaven and that there is no respect of persons with him.

Henceforth, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and 11 in the might of his strength. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of 12 the devil, for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of 13 wickedness in the heavenly places. Wherefore take up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having wrought all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girt your loins about with truth, 15 and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; and

having shod your feet with the readiness of the gospel of 16 peace; in all things having taken up the shield of faith,

wherewith ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of 17 the evil one. And receive the helmet of salvation, and 18 the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word; praying with all prayer and supplication at every season in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and 19 supplication for all the saints, and on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto me, in the opening of my mouth, to make known openly the mystery of the gospel, 20 on behalf of which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak openly as I ought to speak.

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But that ye also may know the things concerning me, how I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful 22 minister in the Lord, will make known to you all; whom I sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

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Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith from God 24 the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption.

TO THE PHILIPPIANS.

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the CH. I. saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. Grace unto you and peace, from God our 2 Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always 3, 4 in every supplication of mine for you all making my supplication with joy, for your fellowship in respect to the 5 gospel from the first day until now; being confident of 6 this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus; even as it 7 is right for me to think this on behalf 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 grace with me. For God is my witness, 8 how I long after you all in the heart of Christ Jesus. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and 9 more in full knowledge and all perception, so that ye may 10 approve the things that excel; that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ; being filled with 11 the fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

But I wish you to know, brethren, that the things 12 relating to me have fallen out rather unto the advancement of the gospel; so that my bonds became manifest in Christ, 13 among all the Praetorian guard and all the rest; and 14 the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, confident by my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear. Some indeed preach Christ even from 15 envy and contention; and some also from good pleasure: the one out of love, knowing that I am set for defence 16

17 of the gospel, the others proclaim Christ out of party 18 spirit, not purely, thinking to raise affliction to my bonds.

What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I do rejoice, yea, 19 and will rejoice; for I know that this will turn out to me unto salvation through your supplication, and bountiful 20 supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I will be ashamed, but that with all openness, as always so now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or 21 by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if to live in the flesh, this is to me fruit of work; 23 and what I shall choose I know not. But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire towards departing and 24 being with Christ, for it is very far better: but to abide 25 in the flesh is more necessary for your sakes. And of this I am confidently persuaded, that I shall bide and abide with you all for the advancement and joy of the 26 faith; that in me your matter for glorying may abound in Christ Jesus through my presence again with you.

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Only perform your duties as citizens in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you or be absent I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand in one spirit, with one soul striving together with the 28 faith of the gospel, and in nothing startled by your adver

saries; which is to them an exhibition of destruction, but 29 of your salvation, and that from God: because unto you it was granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe 30 in him, but also to suffer in his behalf; having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear of in me. CH. II. IF then there be any exhortation in Christ, if any en

couragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any heart 2 and compassions, complete my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, united in spirit, of one mind, 3 doing nothing through party spirit or through vain glory; but in your lowliness of mind thinking others better than 4 yourselves; not looking each of you to his own things, 5 but each of you also to the things of others. Have that