Philippians 2

1 If then [there be] any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any yearnings and mercies,

2 fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

fulfill my joy, that you may mind the same thing—having the same love—of one soul—minding the one thing,

3 [let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

nothing in rivalry or vainglory, but in humility of mind counting one another more excellent than yourselves—

4 regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of others also.

do not each look to your own, but each also to the things of others.

5 For let this mind be in you which [was] also in Christ Jesus;

For let this mind be in you that [is] also in Christ Jesus,

6 who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not something to be seized to be equal to God,

7 but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in [the] likeness of men;

but emptied Himself, having taken the form of a servant, having been made in the likeness of men,

8 and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of [the] cross.

and having been found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, having become obedient to death—even death of a cross,

9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

for this reason, also, God highly exalted Him, and gave to Him a Name that [is] above every name,

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal [beings],

that in the Name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth—

11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord to God [the] Father's glory.

and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ [is] LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

12 So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

So that, my beloved, as you always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

13 for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to [his] good pleasure.

for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

14 Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,

Do all things without murmurings and deliberations,

15 that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in [the] world,

that you may become blameless and pure children of God, unblemished in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as luminaries in the world,

16 holding forth [the] word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

holding forth the word of life, for rejoicing to me in regard to [the] Day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor did I labor in vain;

17 But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.

but if I also am poured forth on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and am glad with you all,

18 In like manner do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

because of this you also rejoice and are glad with me.

19 But I hope in [the] Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

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

20 For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

for I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for the things concerning you,

21 For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

for the whole seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus,

22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

and you know his proof, that as a child [serves] a father, he served with me in regard to the good news;

23 Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

I indeed hope to send him, when I may see through the things concerning me—immediately;

24 but I trust in [the] Lord that I myself also shall soon come;

and I trust in the LORD that I will also come quickly myself.

25 but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

And I thought [it] necessary to send to you Epaphroditus—my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need,

26 since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because you heard that he ailed,

27 for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

for he also ailed near to death, but God dealt kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.

The more eagerly, therefore, I sent him, that having seen him again you may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful;

29 Receive him therefore in [the] Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour;

receive him, therefore, in the LORD, with all joy, and hold such in honor,

30 because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

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