Philippians 4
Wycliffe's Bible
1Therefore, my brethren most dearworthy and most desired, my joy and my crown, so stand ye in the Lord, most dear brethren.

2I pray Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, to understand the same thing in the Lord. 3Also I pray and thee, german fellow, help thou those women that travailed with me in the gospel (help those women who laboured with me in the Gospel, or the Good News), with Clement and other mine helpers, whose names be in the book of life.

4Joy ye in the Lord (for)evermore; again I say, joy ye. (Always have joy in the Lord; again I say, have joy!) 5Be your patience, (or your temperance), known to all men; the Lord is nigh (the Lord is near). 6Be ye nothing busy, but in all prayer and beseeching, with doing of thankings (with the giving of thanks, or with thanks-giving), be your askings known at God. 7And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus. (And the peace of God, which passeth all reasoning, or all understanding, keep your hearts and understandings in the Messiah Jesus.)

8From henceforth, brethren, whatever things be sooth (whatever things be true), whatever things chaste, whatever things just, whatever things holy, whatever things able to be loved, (or amiable, or lovable), whatever things of good fame, if any virtue, if any praising of discipline, think ye (on) these things, 9that also ye have learned, and taken, and heard, and seen in me. Do ye these things, and (the) God of peace shall be with you.

10But I joyed greatly in the Lord, that sometime afterward ye flowered again to feel for me, as also ye feeled (before). But ye were occupied, 11I say not as for need, for I have learned to be sufficient in which things I am. 12And I know also how to be lowed, (or how to be bowed, or to be meeked), I know also how to have plenty, (or how to abound) (And I know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound). Everywhere and in all things I am taught to be [full-]filled, and to hunger, and to abound, and to suffer need. 13I may all things in him that comforteth me. (I can do all things through him who strengtheneth me.) 14Nevertheless ye have done well, communing to my tribulation.

15For ye, Philippians, know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communed with me in reason, of thing given and taken (no other church shared the winnings and losses with me), but ye alone. 16Which sent to Thessalonica once and twice also into use to me. (Ye who sent sustenance to Thessalonica not once but twice for my use.) 17Not for I seek (a) gift, but I require, [or I seek again,] fruit abounding in your reason. 18For I have all things, and abound; I am [full-]filled, (or replete), with those things taken of Epaphroditus (with those things received from Epaphroditus), which ye sent into the odour of sweetness, a covenable sacrifice (a suitable sacrifice), pleasing to God. 19And my God [ful]fill all your desire(s), by his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. (And my God shall fulfill all your desires/shall fill all of your desires full, with his riches in glory through the Messiah Jesus.) 20But to God and our Father be glory into worlds of worlds. Amen. (But to God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.)

21Greet ye well every holy man in Christ Jesus. Those brethren that be with me, greet you well. (Heartily greet every saint, or all of God’s people, in the Messiah Jesus. Those brothers who be with me, send you hearty greetings.) 22All holy men greet you well, most soothly they that be of the emperor's, (or of Caesar’s), house. (All the saints, or All God’s people, heartily greet you, most truly, or most particularly, those who be in the household of the Emperor.)

23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

WYCLIFFE’S BIBLE

Comprising of
Wycliffe’s Old Testament

and

Wycliffe’s New Testament
(Revised Edition)


Translated by

JOHN WYCLIFFE
and JOHN PURVEY


A modern-spelling edition of their
14TH century Middle English translation,
the first complete English vernacular version,
with an Introduction by

TERENCE P. NOBLE

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