Philippians Chapter 2

2 : 1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2 : 2 Fulfill you my joy, that you be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

2 : 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

2 : 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

2 : 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

2 : 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

2 : 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took on him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

2 : 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.

2 : 9 Why God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

2 : 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things 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 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

2 : 13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

2 : 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

2 : 15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the middle of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;

2 : 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

2 : 17 Yes, and if I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

2 : 18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.

2 : 19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

2 : 20 For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state.

2 : 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

2 : 22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

2 : 23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

2 : 24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

2 : 25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

2 : 26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard that he had been sick.

2 : 27 For indeed he was sick near to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow on sorrow.

2 : 28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, 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 gladness; and hold such in reputation:

2 : 30 Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.