Coverdale Bible
1535 by Miles Coverdale

Philippians Chapter 1

Phi 1:1 Paul and Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesu Christ. Vnto all the sayntes in Iesu Christ, which are at Philippos, with the Bisshoppes and mynisters.
Phi 1:2 Grace be with you and peace from God oure father, and from the LORDE Iesus Christ.
Phi 1:3 I thanke my God, as oft as I remebre you
Phi 1:4 (which I allwayes do in all my prayers for you all, and praye with gladnesse)
Phi 1:5 because of youre fellishippe which ye haue in the Gospell from the first daye vnto now,
Phi 1:6 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:
Phi 1:7 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.
Phi 1:8 For God is my recorde, how I loge after you all euen fro the very hert rote in Iesus Christ.
Phi 1:9 And for the same I praye, yt yor loue maye increace more & more in all maner of knowlege and in all experience,
Phi 1:10 yt ye maye proue what is best, that ye maye be pure, & soch as hurte no mans conscience, vnto the daye of Christ:
Phi 1:11 fylled with the frutes of righteousnes, which come by Iesus Christ vnto the glorye and prayse of God.
Phi 1:12 I wolde ye vnderstode brethren, that my busynes is happened vnto the greater furtheraunce of the Gospell,
Phi 1:13 so that my bondes in Christ are manifest thorow out all ye iudgmet hall, and in all other places:
Phi 1:14 In so moch that many brethren in the LORDE, are boldened thorow my bodes, and darre more largely speake the worde without feare.
Phi 1:15 Some (no doute) preach Christ of enuye and stryfe, but some of good wil.
Phi 1:16 The one parte preacheth Christ off stryfe and not purely, supposynge to adde more aduersite vnto my bondes.
Phi 1:17 The other parte of loue, for they knowe that I lye here for the defence of the Gospell.
Phi 1:18 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.
Phi 1:19 For I knowe that the same shal chaunce to my saluacion, thorow youre prayer and mynistrynge of the sprete of Iesu Christ,
Phi 1:20 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.
Phi 1:21 For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage.
Phi 1:22 But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what
Phi 1:23 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)
Phi 1:24 but to abyde in the flesh is more nedefull for you.
Phi 1:25 And this am I sure of, that I shal abyde, and contynue with you all, for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre faith,
Phi 1:26 that ye maye abundauntly reioyse in Christ Iesu thorow me, by my comynge to you agayne.
Phi 1:27 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,
Phi 1:28 and in nothinge fearinge youre aduersaries, which is to them a token off perdicion, but vnto you of saluacion, and that of God.
Phi 1:29 For vnto you it is geuen, not onely that ye shulde beleue on Christ, but also suffre for his sake,
Phi 1:30 and to haue euen the same fighte, which ye haue sene in me, and now heare of me.