New Testament

Philippians — Chapter 2

  1. If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy,
  2. make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
  3. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.
  4. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.
  5. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
  6. who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,
  7. but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.
  8. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
  9. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,
  10. so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
  11. and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  12. Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
  13. for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
  14. Do all things without murmuring and arguing,
  15. so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world.
  16. Hold fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
  17. But if I am to be poured out as a libation over the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
  18. In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
  19. I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you.
  20. For I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
  21. All of them seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
  22. But Timothy, because he is devoted to you, will prove it to you by being diligent to come to you soon.
  23. I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
  24. But you know Timothy's proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.
  25. I hope, therefore, to send him just as soon as I see how things go with me;
  26. and I trust in the Lord that I myself will come soon.
  27. But I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus—my brother, co-worker, and fellow soldier, your messenger and minister to my needs—
  28. because he has been longing for all of you and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
  29. Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.
  30. I am all the more eager to send him, therefore, in order that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.
  31. Welcome him then in the Lord with all joy, and honor such people,
  32. because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.