Philippians 2
1 If, then, any encouragement comes through union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any communion with the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,
If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2 I entreat you to make my happiness complete — Live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.
fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing — having the same love — of one soul — minding the one thing,
3 Nothing should be done in a factious spirit or from vanity, but each of you should with all humility regard others as of more account than himself,
nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves —
4 and one and all should consider, not only their own interests, but also the interests of others.
each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.
5 Let the spirit of Christ Jesus be yours also.
For, let this mind be in you that [is] also in Christ Jesus,
6 Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,
who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God,
7 but impoverished himself by taking the nature of a servant and becoming like men;
but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,
8 he appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death — to death on a cross!
and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death — death even of a cross,
9 And that is why God raised him to the very highest place, and gave him the Name which stands above all other names,
wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that [is] above every name,
10 so that in adoration of the Name of Jesus every knee should bend, in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth,
that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow — of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth —
11 and that every tongue should acknowledge JESUS CHRIST as LORD — to the glory of God the Father.
and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.
So 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,
13 Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.
for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
14 In all that you do, avoid murmuring and dissension,
All things do without murmurings and reasonings,
15 so as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent — ‘faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation,’ in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world,
that 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,
16 offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.
the 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;
17 And yet, even if, when your faith is offered as a sacrifice to God, my life-blood must be poured out in addition, still I shall rejoice and share the joy of you all;
but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,
18 and do you also rejoice and share my joy.
because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.
19 I hope, however, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may myself be cheered by receiving news of you.
And 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,
20 For I have no one but him to send — no one of kindred spirit who would take the same genuine interest in your welfare.
for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,
21 They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.
for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,
22 But you know what Timothy has proved himself to be, and how, like a child working for his father, he worked hard with me in spreading the Good News.
and the proof of him ye know, that as a child [serveth] a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;
23 It is Timothy, then, whom I hope to send, as soon as ever I can foresee how it will go with me.
him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me — immediately;
24 And I am confident, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, that before long I myself shall follow.
and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.
25 Still I think it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you now, for he is my brother, fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, and he was also your messenger to help me in my need.
And 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,
26 For he has been longing to see you all, and has been distressed because you heard of his illness.
seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,
27 And I can assure you that his illness very nearly proved fatal. But God had pity on him, and not on him only but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
for 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.
28 I am all the more ready, therefore, to send him, so that the sight of him may revive your spirits and my own sorrow be lightened.
The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;
29 Give him, then, the heartiest of Christian welcomes, and hold such men in great honour.
receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,
30 For it was owing to his devotion to the Master’s work that he was at the point of death, having risked his own life in the effort to supply what was wanting in the help that you sent me.
because 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.
