Philippians 2:5-30 ▼

5 Let this mind be in you? that was also in Christ Jesus:

6 Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider to be equal with God something to be grasped,

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 unto death, even the death of the cross.

9 Therefore God also highly exalted Him and granted to Him the name above every name,

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in the heavens 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 always you? 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 God is the One working in you? both to will and to work on behalf of His good pleasure.

14 Do all things without grumblings and disputings,

15 so that you? may be blameless and innocent, children of God unblemished in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you? shine as lights in the world,

16 holding forth the word of life for a boast to me in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain, nor did I toil in vain.

17 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your? faith, I rejoice and rejoice with you? all.

18 And likewise you? also be glad and rejoice with me.

19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you? soon, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you?.

20 For I have no one like-minded, who genuinely will care for the things concerning you?.

21 For those all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Jesus Christ.

22 But you? know his proven worth, that as a child with a father he served with me in the gospel.

23 Therefore indeed I hope to send him immediately, when I shall have seen the things concerning me.

24 And I am persuaded in the Lord that I myself will also come soon.

25 Now I deemed it necessary to send to you? Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your? messenger and minister of my need,

26 since he was longing for you? all and being deeply distressed because you? heard that he was sick.

27 And indeed he was sick, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

28 Therefore I sent him all the more eagerly, so that having seen him again you? may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

29 Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,

30 because on account of the work of Christ he drew near unto death, having disregarded his life so that he might fill up your? deficiency of service toward me.