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¹ Paul and Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesu Christ. Vnto all the sayntes in Iesu Christ, which are at Philippos, with the Bisshoppes and mynisters.² Grace be with you and peace from God oure father, and from the LORDE Iesus Christ.

³ I thanke my God, as oft as I remebre you⁴ (which I allwayes do in all my prayers for you all, and praye with gladnesse)⁵ because of youre fellishippe which ye haue in the Gospell from the first daye vnto now,⁶ and am surely certified of this, yt he which hath begonne that good worke in you, shal go forth with it vntyll ye daye of Iesus Christ:

⁷ as it becommeth me to iudge of you all, because I haue you in my hert, as those that are partakers with me of grace in my bondes, in defendinge and stablyshinge of the Gospell.⁸ For God is my recorde, how I loge after you all euen fro the very hert rote in Iesus Christ.

⁹ And for the same I praye, yt yor loue maye increace more & more in all maner of knowlege and in all experience,¹⁰ yt ye maye proue what is best, that ye maye be pure, & soch as hurte no mans conscience, vnto the daye of Christ:¹¹ fylled with the frutes of righteousnes, which come by Iesus Christ vnto the glorye and prayse of God.

¹² I wolde ye vnderstode brethren, that my busynes is happened vnto the greater furtheraunce of the Gospell,¹³ so that my bondes in Christ are manifest thorow out all ye iudgmet hall, and in all other places:¹⁴ In so moch that many brethren in the LORDE, are boldened thorow my bodes, and darre more largely speake the worde without feare.¹⁵ Some (no doute) preach Christ of enuye and stryfe, but some of good wil.¹⁶ The one parte preacheth Christ off stryfe and not purely, supposynge to adde more aduersite vnto my bondes.¹⁷ The other parte of loue, for they knowe that I lye here for the defence of the Gospell.¹⁸ What then? So that Christ be preached all maner of wayes (whether it be done by occasion or of true meaninge) I reioyce therin, and wil reioyce.¹⁹ For I knowe that the same shal chaunce to my saluacion, thorow youre prayer and mynistrynge of the sprete of Iesu Christ,²⁰ as I loke for and hope, that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all cofidence (as allwayes in tymes past, eue so now) Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorow life or thorow death.

²¹ For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage.²² But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what²³ I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me)²⁴ but to abyde in the flesh is more nedefull for you.²⁵ And this am I sure of, that I shal abyde, and contynue with you all, for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre faith,²⁶ that ye maye abundauntly reioyse in Christ Iesu thorow me, by my comynge to you agayne.

²⁷ Onely let youre conuersacion be as it becommeth the Gospell of Christ, that whether I come & se you, or els be absent, I maye yet heare of you that ye cotynue in one sprete and one soule, labourynge (as we do) to mayntayne the faith of the Gospell,²⁸ and in nothinge fearinge youre aduersaries, which is to them a token off perdicion, but vnto you of saluacion, and that of God.²⁹ For vnto you it is geuen, not onely that ye shulde beleue on Christ, but also suffre for his sake,³⁰ and to haue euen the same fighte, which ye haue sene in me, and now heare of me.