Philippians 2:1-22 ▼

1 If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any yearnings and mercies,

2 fulfill my joy, that you may mind the same thing—having the same love—of one soul—minding the one thing,

3 nothing in rivalry or vainglory, but in humility of mind counting one another more excellent than yourselves—

4 do not each look to your own, but each also to the things of others.

5 For let this mind be in you that [is] also in Christ Jesus,

6 who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not something to be seized to be equal to God,

7 but emptied Himself, having taken the form of a servant, having been made in the likeness of men,

8 and having been found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, having become obedient to death—even death of a cross,

9 for this reason, also, God highly exalted Him, and gave to Him a Name that [is] above every name,

10 that in the Name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth—

11 and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ [is] LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

12 So that, my beloved, as you always obey, 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 deliberations,

15 that you may become blameless and pure children of God, unblemished in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as luminaries in the world,

16 holding forth the word of life, for rejoicing to me in regard to [the] Day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor did I labor in vain;

17 but if I also am poured forth on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and am glad with you all,

18 because of this you also rejoice and are glad with me.

19 And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, to send Timotheus to you quickly, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,

20 for I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for the things concerning you,

21 for the whole seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus,

22 and you know his proof, that as a child [serves] a father, he served with me in regard to the good news;