Philippians 2:1-13 ▼

1 If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit,

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.

3 Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind each esteeming others better than themselves.

4 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, which was also in Christ Jesus:

6 who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be as God.

7 Yet He emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, when made in the 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.

9 Wherefore God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a 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;

11 and every tongue confess 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:

13 for it is God that worketh in you both to will, and to work, out of his own good-pleasure.