Philippians 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,
If then there is any consolation in Christ, if there is any comfort of divine love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercies,
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.
fill my joy, that you may think the same thing, having the same divine love, being like-minded, thinking this one thing;
3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves;
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
looking not each after your own interests, but each after that of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God,
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man;
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
he humbled himself, being obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Therefore God has indeed exalted him, and given him a name above every name;
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;
that at the name of Jesus every knee must bow, of things in heaven and things upon the earth and things beneath the earth,
11 And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, unto the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye 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.
So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.
for God is the one working in you both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Do all things without murmurings and disputatious;
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
But if indeed I am poured out for a sacrifice and an offering for your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice along with you all;
18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
but you also rejoice in this same thing, and rejoice along with me.
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
But I hope in the Lord Jesus, speedily to send unto you Timothy, in order that I may also be delighted, having learned the things concerning you.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
For I have no one like-minded, who will nobly remember the things concerning you;
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
for all are seeking after their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
Indeed then I hope to send him, so soon as I may learn the things concerning myself:
24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
but I trust in the Lord that I myself will come speedily.
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, and apostle and the minister of my necessity;
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
since he was longing after you all, and grieving, because you heard that he was sick.
27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
For he was indeed nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not only him, but me also, in order that I may not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
Therefore I the more diligently, in order that, seeing him, you may rejoice again, and I may not be without sorrow.
29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
Then receive him in the Lord with all joy, and have such in honor:
30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me.
