Philippians

Chapter 1 

Thanksgiving

[Phl 1:3-6 LSB] I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all, because of your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now. [For I am] confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

[Phl 1:9 LSB] And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all discernment,

The Progress of the Gospel

To Live Is Christ

[Phl 1:21 LSB] For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

[Phl 1:29 LSB] For to you it has been granted for Christ's sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

Chapter 2

Christ’s Humility and Exaltation

[Phl 2:5-8 LSB] Have this [way of] thinking in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although existing in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a slave, by being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

[Phl 2:9-11 LSB] Therefore, God also highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

[Phl 2:12-13 LSB] So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for [His] good pleasure.

[Phl 2:14-16 LSB] Do all things without grumbling or disputing, so that you will be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to boast because I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

Timothy and Epaphroditus Sent

Chapter 3

Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

[Phl 3:8-11 LSB] More than that, I count all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own which is from [the] Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which [is] from God upon faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Pressing On Toward the Goal

[Phl 3:13-14 LSB] Brothers, I do not consider myself as having laid hold of [it] yet, but one thing [I do]: forgetting what [lies] behind and reaching forward to what [lies] ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

[Phl 3:20-21 LSB] For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by His working through which He is able to even subject all things to Himself.

Chapter 4

Rejoice in the Lord Always

[Phl 4:4-5 LSB] Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your considerate [spirit] be known to all men. The Lord is near.

[Phl 4:6-7 LSB] Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

God Will Fill Your Needs

[Phl 4:11 LSB] Not that I speak from want, for I learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

[Phl 4:13 LSB] I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.