Philippians Chapter 2 Back Next{2:1} If there is therefore any exhortation in
Christ, if any consolation of love, if any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
{2:2} make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
{2:3} doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in
humility, each counting others better than himself;
{2:4} each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
{2:5} Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ
Jesus,
{2:6} who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
{2:7} but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
{2:8} And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to
death, yes, the death of the
cross.
{2:9} Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
{2:10} that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in
heaven, those on
earth, and those under the earth,
{2:11} and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.
{2:12} So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
{2:13} For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
{2:14} Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
{2:15} that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without
blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
{2:16} holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
{2:17} Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
{2:18} In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
{2:19} But I
hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
{2:20} For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
{2:21} For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
{2:22} But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
{2:23} Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
{2:24} But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
{2:25} But I counted it necessary to send to you
Epaphroditus, my
brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your
apostle and servant of my need;
{2:26} since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.
{2:27} For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
{2:28} I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
{2:29} Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,
{2:30} because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
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