Philippians 2
1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any comfort from love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there is any compassion or mercy,
If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit,
2 make my joy complete by adopting the same mindset, having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.
if any bowels of compassion, compleat ye my joy, be like-minded, maintaining the same love, with your souls united, in attending to the one thing needful.
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility regard others as more important than yourselves.
Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind each esteeming others better than themselves.
4 None of you should look out for your own interests, but for the interests of others.
Look not every one to his own interests only, but every one also to the concerns of others.
5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
Let the same mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited,
who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be as God.
7 but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant and being born in the likeness of men.
Yet He emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, when made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
and being in the human state, He humbled himself, and was obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.
9 Therefore God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every other name,
Wherefore God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name above every name:
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of celestial beings, as well as of those on earth, and of those under the earth;
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Therefore, my beloved friends, just 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,
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed the gospel, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence; be still working out your own salvation though with fear and trembling:
13 for God is the one at work in you, granting you the will and power to do so, according to his good pleasure.
for it is God that worketh in you both to will, and to work, out of his own good-pleasure.
14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world
that ye may be blameless and inoffensive, the children of God without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as lights in the world,
16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. Then I will have a reason to boast in the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
17 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
But if I be even poured forth as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all.
18 In the same way you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
And for the same cause do ye also rejoice, and congratulate with me.
19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I too may be encouraged when I receive news about you.
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, by knowing the state of your affairs.
20 I have no one else like-minded who will be genuinely concerned about your welfare.
For I have no one of a like spirit, who will with a kind of natural affection take care of your affairs.
21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
22 But you know Timothy's proven character, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.
But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel.
23 Therefore I hope to send him to you at once, as soon as I find out what is going to happen to me.
I hope therefore to send him as soon as I see the issue of my own affairs.
24 And I am confident in the Lord that I myself will also come soon.
But I trust in the Lord, that I shall soon come myself too.
25 But for now I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus—my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need.
However, I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother, and fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, who ministred to my wants:
26 For he has been longing for you all and was distressed because you heard that he was sick.
for he much longed after you all, and was greatly concerned because ye had heard that he was sick.
27 Indeed he was sick, almost to the point of death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.
For indeed he was sick and nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be less anxious.
I have sent him therefore the more desirously, that when ye see him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.
29 So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor men like him,
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in high esteem:
30 because he drew near to death for the work of Christ, disregarding his own life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.
because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, so that he might fill up what was wanting in your kind offices towards me.
