| 2 | Philippians | ||
| 1 | IF THEN our common life in Christ yields anything to stir the heart, any loving consolation, any sharing of the Spirit, any warmth of affection or compassion, | Christian Humility and Christ's Humility Php.2.1-11 | |
| 2 | fill up my cup of happiness by thinking and feeling alike, with the same love for one another, the same turn of mind, and a common care for unity. | ||
| 3 | There must be no room for rivalry and personal vanity among you, but you must humbly reckon others better than yourselves. | ||
| 4 | Look to each other's interest and not merely to your own. | ||
| 5 | Let your bearing towards one another arise out of your life in Christ Jesus. | ||
| 6 | For the divine nature was his from the first; yet he did not think to snatch at equality with God, | Php.2.6-11 | |
| 7 | but made himself nothing, assuming the nature of a slave. Bearing the human likeness, | ||
| 8 | revealed in human shape, he humbled himself, and in obedience accepted even death— death on a cross. | ||
| 9 | Therefore God raised him to the heights and bestowed on him the name above all names, | ||
| 10 | that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow— in heaven, on earth, and in the depths— | - every knee should bow and under the earth, Php.2.10 - Is.45.23 | |
| 11 | and every tongue confess, 'Jesus Christ is Lord', to the glory of God the Father. | ||
| 12 | So you too, my friends, must be obedient, as always; even more, now that I am away, than when I was with you. You must work out your own salvation in fear and trembling; | Shining as Lights in the World Php.2.12-18 | |
| 13 | for it is God who works in you, inspiring both the will and the deed, for his own chosen purpose. | ||
| 14 | Do all you have to do without complaint or wrangling. | ||
| 15 | Show yourselves guileless and above reproach, faultless children of God in a warped and crooked generation, in which you shine like stars in a dark world and proffer the word of life. | ||
| 16 | Thus you will be my pride on the Day of Christ, proof that I did not run my race in vain, or work in vain. | ||
| 17 | But if my life-blood is to crown that sacrifice which is the offering up of your faith, I am glad of it, and I share my gladness with you all. | ||
| 18 | Rejoice, you no less than I, and let us share our joy. | ||
| 19 | I HOPE (under the Lord Jesus) to send Timothy to you soon; it will cheer me to hear news of you. | Timothy and Epaphroditus Php.2.19-30 | |
| 20 | There is no one else here who sees things as I do, and takes a genuine interest in your concerns; | ||
| 21 | they are all bent on their own ends, not on the cause of Christ Jesus. | ||
| 22 | But Timothy's record is known to you: you know that he has been at my side in the service of the Gospel like a son working under his father. | ||
| 23 | Timothy, then, I hope to send as soon as ever I can see how things are going with me; | ||
| 24 | and I am confident, under the Lord, that I shall myself be coming before long. | ||
| 25 | I feel also I must send our brother Epaphroditus, my fellow-worker and comrade, whom you commissioned to minister to my needs. | ||
| 26 | He has been missing all of you sadly, and has been distressed that you heard he was ill. | ||
| 27 | (He was indeed dangerously ill, but God was merciful to him, and merciful no less to me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.) | ||
| 28 | For this reason I am all the more eager to send him, to give you the happiness of seeing him again, and to relieve my sorrow. | ||
| 29 | Welcome him then in the fellowship of the Lord with wholehearted delight. You should honour men like him; | ||
| 30 | in Christ's cause he came near to death, risking his life to render me the service you could not give. | ||
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