Philippians - Chapter 2 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. You have fellowship with the Spirit, and you have kindness and compassion for one another.
  • 2. I urge you, then, to make me completely happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and being one in soul and mind.
  • 3. Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.
  • 4. And look out for one another's interests, not just for your own.
  • 5. The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had:
  • 6. He always had the nature of God, but he did not think that by force he should try to remain equal with God.
  • 7. Instead of this, of his own free will he gave up all he had, and took the nature of a servant. He became like a human being and appeared in human likeness.
  • 8. He was humble and walked the path of obedience all the way to death--- his death on the cross.
  • 9. For this reason God raised him to the highest place above and gave him the name that is greater than any other name.
  • 10. And so, in honor of the name of Jesus all beings in heaven, on earth, and in the world below will fall on their knees,
  • 11. and all will openly proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • 12. So then, dear friends, as you always obeyed me when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey me now while I am away from you. Keep on working with fear and trembling to complete your salvation,
  • 13. because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.
  • 14. Do everything without complaining or arguing,
  • 15. so that you may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children, who live in a world of corrupt and sinful people. You must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky,
  • 16. as you offer them the message of life. If you do so, I shall have reason to be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because it will show that all my effort and work have not been wasted.
  • 17. Perhaps my life's blood is to be poured out like an offering on the sacrifice that your faith offers to God. If that is so, I am glad and share my joy with you all.
  • 18. In the same way, you too must be glad and share your joy with me.
  • 19. If it is the Lord's will, I hope that I will be able to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be encouraged by news about you.
  • 20. He is the only one who shares my feelings and who really cares about you.
  • 21. Everyone else is concerned only with their own affairs, not with the cause of Jesus Christ.
  • 22. And you yourselves know how he has proved his worth, how he and I, like a son and his father, have worked together for the sake of the gospel.
  • 23. So I hope to send him to you as soon as I know how things are going to turn out for me.
  • 24. And I trust in the Lord that I myself will be able to come to you soon.
  • 25. I have thought it necessary to send to you our brother Epaphroditus, who has worked and fought by my side and who has served as your messenger in helping me.
  • 26. He is anxious to see you all and is very upset because you had heard that he was sick.
  • 27. Indeed he was sick and almost died. But God had pity on him, and not only on him but on me, too, and spared me an even greater sorrow.
  • 28. I am all the more eager, then, to send him to you, so that you will be glad again when you see him, and my own sorrow will disappear.
  • 29. Receive him, then, with joy, as a believer in the Lord. Show respect to all such people as he,
  • 30. because he risked his life and nearly died for the sake of the work of Christ, in order to give me the help that you yourselves could not give.
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