Philippians 4 — WBMSE
4Verse 1Therefore, my brethren most dearworthy and most desired, my joy and my crown, so stand ye in the Lord, most dear brethren.Verse 2I pray Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, to understand the same thing in the Lord.Verse 3Also I pray and thee, germane fellow, help thou those women that travailed with me in the gospel, (or help those women who laboured with me in the Gospel or the Good News), with Clement and other mine helpers, whose names be in the book of life.Verse 4Joy ye in the Lord (for)evermore; again I say, joy ye. (Always have joy in the Lord; again I say, have joy!)Verse 5Be your patience [or your temperance] known to all men; the Lord is nigh (or the Lord is near).Verse 6Be ye nothing busy, but in all prayer and beseeching, with doing of thankings, (or with the giving of thanks, or with thanksgiving), be your askings known at God.Verse 7And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus. (And the peace of God, which passeth all reasoning or all understanding, keep your hearts and understandings in the Messiah Jesus.)Verse 8From henceforth, brethren, whatever things be sooth (or whatever things be true), whatever things chaste (or pure), whatever things just, whatever things holy, whatever things able to be loved, [or amiable, or lovable], whatever things of good fame, if any virtue, if any praising of discipline, think ye (on) these things,Verse 9that also ye have learned, and taken, and heard, and seen in me. Do ye these things, and (the) God of peace shall be with you.Verse 10But I joyed greatly in the Lord, that sometime afterward ye flowered again to feel for me, as also ye feeled (before). But ye were occupied,Verse 11I say not as for need, for I have learned to be sufficient in which things I am.Verse 12And I know also how to be lowed, [or how to be bowed, or meeked], I know also how to have plenty [or how to abound], (And I know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound). Everywhere and in all things I am taught to be [full-]filled, and to hunger, and to abound, and to suffer mis-ease (or need).Verse 13I may all things in him that comforteth me. (I can do all things through him who strengtheneth me.)Verse 14Nevertheless ye have done well, communing to my tribulation.Verse 15For ye, Philippians, know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communed with me in reason, of thing given and taken, (or no other church shared things given and received with me), but ye alone.Verse 16Which sent to Thessalonica once and twice also into use to me. (Ye who sent sustenance to Thessalonica not once but twice for my use.)Verse 17Not for I seek (a) gift, but I require, [or (I) seek again], fruit abounding in your reason.Verse 18For I have all things, and abound; I am [full-]filled [or replete] with those things taken of Epaphroditus (or with those things received from Epaphroditus), which ye sent into the odour of sweetness, a covenable (or a suitable) sacrifice, pleasing to God.Verse 19And my God [ful] fill all your desire(s), by his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. (And my God shall fulfill all your desires, or shall fill all of your desires full, with his riches in glory through the Messiah Jesus.)Verse 20But to God and our Father be glory into worlds of worlds. Amen. (But to God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.)Verse 21Greet ye well every holy man in Christ Jesus. Those brethren that be with me, greet you well. (Give hearty greetings to every saint, or to all of God’s people, in the Messiah Jesus. Those brothers who be with me, send you hearty greetings.)Verse 22All holy men greet you well, most soothly they that be of the emperor’s [or of Caesar’s] house. (All the saints, or all of God’s people, send hearty greetings to you, most particularly those who be in the household of the Emperor.)Verse 23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.