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15 Let us, therefore, as many as are fully enlightened, be of this mind and if you are of another mind with respect to any thing, God will reveal even this to you. 16 But as far as we have attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us have the same mind. 17 Be imitators of me, brethren, and observe those who thus walk as you have us for an example. 18 For many walk, of whom I often said to you, and now say even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of the Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our humbled body, and make it like his glorious body, according to that power by which he is able to subdue all things to himself.

IV. 1So, then, my brethren, beloved and ardently desired, my joy and my crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

2 I beseech Euodia, and I beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. 3 Now I beseech you also, true yoke-fellow, to assist those women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and my other fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

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Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to all men: the Lord is at hand. Be anxious about nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God: and the peace of God, that passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good

report, if there is any virtue, or any praise, think of these things. Do those things which you have learned and received, and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

1o I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length your care for me has revived again; in this, indeed, you had me in mind, but you lacked opportunity. "I do not speak in respect to want: for I have learned, in whatever condition I am, to be content. 12 I know what it is to be in want, and what it is to have abundance. Everywhere and in all things, I have been fully instructed in being full and in being hungry, in having abundance and in being in want. 13 I am able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

14 Yet you have done well in contributing to the relief of my affliction. 15 Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church contributed to me so that I kept an account of giving and receiving, but you only. 16 For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent once and again to aid me in my need. 17 Not that I seek a gift; but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. 18 But I have all, and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your gifts, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. 19 But my God will supply all your need, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

20 Now to God, even our Father, be glory from age to age. Amen.

21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren that are with me salute you. 22 All the saints salute you, especially

those who are of Cæsar's household.

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

PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS.

I. 1 AUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy my brother, 2 to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ that are in Colosse: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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3 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faithfulness in Christ Jesus, and your love for all the saints, in consequence of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, which is present among you, as it is also in all the world, and is producing fruit, even as it has been doing also among you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth, as you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you, and who also made known to us your love in spirit.

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For this reason, we, also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, in order to please him in all things, by means of every good work bringing forth fruit, and increasing in the knowledge of God, "strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, in order to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness, 12 giving thanks to God, who has made

us fit for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light:

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who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins; 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature; 16 for by him were all things created, things in heaven and things in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities; all things were created by him, and for him: 17 and he is before all things, and by him all things consist: 18 and he is the head of the body, the church: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be pre-eminent; 19 for it pleased the Father that all his fullness should dwell in him, 20 and by him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace by the blood of his cross; by him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

21 And you, who were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled 22 by means of death in his fleshly body, that he may present you holy, and without spot, and blameless in his sight; 23 if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what remains of my sufferings for Christ in my flesh for the sake of his body, which is the church, 25 of which I was made a minister according to the commission from God, which was given to me for you, that I might fully preach the word of God, 26 the mystery which was concealed from the ages and the generations, but is now made manifest to his saints, 27 to whom God would

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make known what is the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 20 to which end I also labor, striving according to his energy, which works in me mightily.

II. For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; that their hearts may be comforted, they being.firmly united in love in order to gain all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may acknowledge the mystery of God, even the Father, and of Christ, 3 in whom are stored up all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge. Now I say this, that no one may deceive you by persuasive words. For, though I am absent in flesh, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to behold your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ. As, therefore, you received Christ Jesus our Lord, so walk in him, rooted, and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

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See that no one make you the victims of imposture by means of philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ: for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhood bodily. 10 And you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and authority: "in whom you have been also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 when you were buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him by your faith in the

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