THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS 2

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1 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 vainglory 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 the 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 things 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 ⚑

20 For I have no man likeminded who will naturally care for your state ⚑

21 For all seek their own not the things which are Jesus hrist’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 fellowsoldier but your messenger and he that ministered to my wants ⚑

26 For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness because that 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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain