Philippians 2:1-16 ▼

1 If there is , therefore, any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affections and compassions,

2 fill ye up my joy, that ye think the same thing; having the same love; united in soul; minding the one thing;

3 doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself;

4 not looking each to his own things, but each also to the things of others.

5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus;

6 Who, existing originally in the form of God, accounted it not a prize to he equal with God.

7 but emptied Himself, taking a slave's form, coming to be in the likeness of men;

8 and, being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

9 Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed upon Him the name which is above every name;

10 that, in the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of beings 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 So then, my beloved, as ye always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

13 for it is God Who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings;

15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,

16 holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.