Philippians - Chapter 2 | American Standard Version

  • 1. If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,
  • 2. make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
  • 3. {cf15i doing} nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
  • 4. not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
  • 5. Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
  • 6. who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
  • 7. but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;
  • 8. and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient {cf15i even} unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
  • 9. Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;
  • 10. that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of {cf15i things} in heaven and {cf15i things} on earth and {cf15i things} under the earth,
  • 11. and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • 12. So then, my beloved, even as ye have 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 worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
  • 14. Do all things without murmurings and questionings:
  • 15. that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
  • 16. holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.
  • 17. Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
  • 18. and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
  • 19. But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
  • 20. For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state.
  • 21. For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
  • 22. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child {cf15i serveth} a father, {cf15i so} he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.
  • 23. Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me:
  • 24. but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly.
  • 25. But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;
  • 26. since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:
  • 27. for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
  • 28. I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
  • 29. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor:
  • 30. because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
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