2Philippians 2

1If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,Select Philippians 2:1

2fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,Select Philippians 2:2

3nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--Select Philippians 2:3

4each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.Select Philippians 2:4

5For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,Select Philippians 2:5

6who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,Select Philippians 2:6

7but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,Select Philippians 2:7

8and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,Select Philippians 2:8

9wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,Select Philippians 2:9

10that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow--of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth--Select Philippians 2:10

11and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.Select Philippians 2:11

12So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,Select Philippians 2:12

13for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.Select Philippians 2:13

14All things do without murmurings and reasonings,Select Philippians 2:14

15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,Select Philippians 2:15

16the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;Select Philippians 2:16

17but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,Select Philippians 2:17

18because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.Select Philippians 2:18

19And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,Select Philippians 2:19

20for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,Select Philippians 2:20

21for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,Select Philippians 2:21

22and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;Select Philippians 2:22

23him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me--immediately;Select Philippians 2:23

24and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.Select Philippians 2:24

25And I thought it necessary Epaphroditus--my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need--to send unto you,Select Philippians 2:25

26seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,Select Philippians 2:26

27for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.Select Philippians 2:27

28The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;Select Philippians 2:28

29receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,Select Philippians 2:29

30because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.Select Philippians 2:30