Study Desk

As for the things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

I know how to get along with little, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.

Nevertheless, you have done well to share with me in my difficulty.

You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone;

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

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

For this reason we also, since the day we heard about it, have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all perseverance and patience; joyously

We proclaim Him, admonishing every person and teaching every person with all wisdom, so that we may present every person complete in Christ.

I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.

For even though I am absent in body, I am nevertheless with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your orderly manner and the stability of your faith in Christ.

having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.

See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the elementary principles of the world, rather than in accordance with Christ.

and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,

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.

And when you were dead in your wrongdoings and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our wrongdoings,

and not holding firmly to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

(which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of man?

Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.