“Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.”
King James Version (KJV)
1:1 Servants - St. Paul, writing familiarly to the Philippians, does not style himself an apostle. And under the common title of servants, he tenderly and modestly joins with himself his son Timotheus, who had come to Philippi not long after St. Paul had received him, #Acts 16:3|,12. To all the saints - The apostolic epistles were sent more directly to the churches, than to the pastors of them. With the bishops and deacons - The former properly took care of the internal state, the latter, of the externals, of the church, #1Tim 3:2 |- 8; although these were not wholly confined to the one, neither those to the other. The word bishops here includes all the presbyters at Philippi, as well as the ruling presbyters: the names bishop and presbyter, or elder, being promiscuously used in the first ages.
1:4 With joy - After the epistle to the Ephesians, wherein love reigns, follows this, wherein there is perpetual mention of joy. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy. And joy peculiarly enlivens prayer. The sum of the whole epistle is, I rejoice. Rejoice ye.
Php 1:2 Grace [be] unto you, and peace. The usual apostolic benediction, such as we have found in preceding Epistles, is conferred. See PNT "Ro 1:7".
Grace be vnto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Basic English Bible
grace to you, and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
- Darby Bible
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Webster's Bible
May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Weymouth Bible
Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- World English Bible
grace and pees to you of God oure fadir, and of the Lord Jhesu Crist.
- Wycliffe Bible
Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Youngs Literal Bible