Philippians 2
1 If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit,
If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2 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.
fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness,
3 Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind each esteeming others better than themselves.
in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.
4 Look not every one to his own interests only, but every one also to the concerns of others.
Look ye out each man not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others.
5 Let the same mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus,
6 who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be as God.
who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.
7 Yet He emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, when made in the likeness of men:
But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men.
8 and being in the human state, He humbled himself, and was obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.
And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross.
9 Wherefore God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name above every name:
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name,
10 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;
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 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:
Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 for it is God that worketh in you both to will, and to work, out of his own good-pleasure.
For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Do all things without grumblings and arguments,
15 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,
so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
16 exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
17 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.
Yet even if I am poured out a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
18 And for the same cause do ye also rejoice, and congratulate with me.
And in the same way, ye also be glad and rejoice with me.
19 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.
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be cheerful when I know the things about you.
20 For I have no one of a like spirit, who will with a kind of natural affection take care of your affairs.
For I have no man like-minded who will genuinely care for the things about you.
21 For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.
22 But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel.
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child to a father, he served with me for the good news.
23 I hope therefore to send him as soon as I see the issue of my own affairs.
Indeed therefore I hope to send this man immediately, whenever I may focus on the things concerning me.
24 But I trust in the Lord, that I shall soon come myself too.
And I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come soon.
25 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:
But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and co-workman and fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
26 for he much longed after you all, and was greatly concerned because ye had heard that he was sick.
since he was longing for you all, and distressed because ye heard that he was sick.
27 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.
For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I have sent him therefore the more desirously, that when ye see him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.
Therefore I sent him more urgently, so that having seen him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful.
29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in high esteem:
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men esteemed.
30 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.
Because for sake of the work of the Christ he came near the point of death, handing over his life so that he might fill up the deficiency of your service toward me.
