To Be Determined

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and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

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that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

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if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

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I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.

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Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

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For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

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whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

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For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

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who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

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Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

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I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

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Yes, I beg you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice!

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Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

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In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

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Finally, brothers, 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, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

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But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

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Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

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I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

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I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

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You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

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For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

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Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

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But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

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My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

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Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.

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All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

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

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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

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to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

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having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

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because 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 Good News,

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which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

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even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,

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who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

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For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

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giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

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who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

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in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

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who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

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For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

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He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

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He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

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For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;

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and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

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You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

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yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

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if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;

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of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

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the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

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to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

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whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

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for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

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that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

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in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

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Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

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For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

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rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

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For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

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and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

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in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

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You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

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Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

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Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

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If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

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“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”

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(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

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Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

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Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

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For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

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Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

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but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

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and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

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Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;