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Philippians 4

The Message Bible MSG

1 My dear, dear friends! I love you so much. I do want the very best for you. You make me feel such joy, fill me with such pride. Don't waver. Stay on track, steady in God.

2 I urge Euodia and Syntyche to iron out their differences and make up. God doesn't want his children holding grudges.

3 And, oh, yes, Syzygus, since you're right there to help them work things out, do your best with them. These women worked for the Message hand in hand with Clement and me, and with the other veterans - worked as hard as any of us. Remember, their names are also in the book of life.

4 Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him!

5 Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you're on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute!

6 Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.

7 Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

8 Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious - the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.

9 Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.

10 I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess - happy that you're again showing such strong concern for me. Not that you ever quit praying and thinking about me. You just had no chance to show it.

11 Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances.

12 I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.

13 Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.

14 I don't mean that your help didn't mean a lot to me - it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles.

15 You Philippians well know, and you can be sure I'll never forget it, that when I first left Macedonia province, venturing out with the Message, not one church helped out in the give-and-take of this work except you. You were the only one.

16 Even while I was in Thessalonica, you helped out - and not only once, but twice.

17 Not that I'm looking for handouts, but I do want you to experience the blessing that issues from generosity.

18 And now I have it all - and keep getting more! The gifts you sent with Epaphroditus were more than enough, like a sweet-smelling sacrifice roasting on the altar, filling the air with fragrance, pleasing God no end.

19 You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus.

20 Our God and Father abounds in glory that just pours out into eternity. Yes.

21 Give our regards to every Christian you meet. Our friends here say hello.

22 All the Christians here, especially the believers who work in the palace of Caesar, want to be remembered to you.

23 Receive and experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within yourselves.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 itaque fratres mei carissimi et desiderantissimi gaudium meum et corona mea sic state in Domino carissimi

2 Euhodiam rogo et Syntychen deprecor id ipsum sapere in Domino

3 etiam rogo et te germane conpar adiuva illas quae mecum laboraverunt in evangelio cum Clemente et ceteris adiutoribus meis quorum nomina sunt in libro vitae

4 gaudete in Domino semper iterum dico gaudete

5 modestia vestra nota sit omnibus hominibus Dominus prope

6 nihil solliciti sitis sed in omni oratione et obsecratione cum gratiarum actione petitiones vestrae innotescant apud Deum

7 et pax Dei quae exsuperat omnem sensum custodiat corda vestra et intellegentias vestras in Christo Iesu

8 de cetero fratres quaecumque sunt vera quaecumque pudica quaecumque iusta quaecumque sancta quaecumque amabilia quaecumque bonae famae si qua virtus si qua laus haec cogitate

9 quae et didicistis et accepistis et audistis et vidistis in me haec agite et Deus pacis erit vobiscum

10 gavisus sum autem in Domino vehementer quoniam tandem aliquando refloruistis pro me sentire sicut et sentiebatis occupati autem eratis

11 non quasi propter penuriam dico ego enim didici in quibus sum sufficiens esse

12 scio et humiliari scio et abundare ubique et in omnibus institutus sum et satiari et esurire et abundare et penuriam pati

13 omnia possum in eo qui me confortat

14 verumtamen bene fecistis communicantes tribulationi meae

15 scitis autem et vos Philippenses quod in principio evangelii quando profectus sum a Macedonia nulla mihi ecclesia communicavit in ratione dati et accepti nisi vos soli

16 quia et Thessalonicam et semel et bis in usum mihi misistis

17 non quia quaero datum sed requiro fructum abundantem in rationem vestram

18 habeo autem omnia et abundo repletus sum acceptis ab Epafrodito quae misistis odorem suavitatis hostiam acceptam placentem Deo

19 Deus autem meus impleat omne desiderium vestrum secundum divitias suas in gloria in Christo Iesu

20 Deo autem et Patri nostro gloria in saecula saeculorum amen

21 salutate omnem sanctum in Christo Iesu salutant vos qui mecum sunt fratres

22 salutant vos omnes sancti maxime autem qui de Caesaris domo sunt

23 gratia Domini Iesu Christi cum spiritu vestro amen