PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER II

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if 
any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the 
Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having 
the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory;
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better 
than themselves. 
4 Look not every man on his own things, but 
every man also on the things of others. 
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in 
Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not 
robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took 
upon him the form of a servant, and was made in 
the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself, and became obedient unto death, even 
the death of the cross. 
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, 
and given him a name which is above every name: 
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should 
bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and 
things under earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that 
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 
12 Wherefore, my beloved, 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 which worketh in you both to 
will and to do of his good pleasure. 
14 Do all tings without murmurings and disputings:
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the 
sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a 
crooked and perverse nation among whom ye 
shine as lights in the world; 
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may 
rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in 
vain, neither laboured in vain. 
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice 
and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with 
you all. 
18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice 
with me. 
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus 
shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, 
when I know your state. 
21 For all seek their own, not the things which 
are Jesus Christ's. 
22 But ye know the proof of him, that as a son 
with the father, he hath served with me in the 
gospel. 
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so 
soon as I shall see how it will go with me. 
24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself
shall come shortly.
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you 
Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour,
and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that 
ministered to my wants. 
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of 
heaviness, because ye had heard that he had 
been 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, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 
28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, 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 
gladness; and hold such in reputation. 
30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh 
unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your 
lack of service toward me.