Godbey - Philippians - 2

2:1  If then there is any consolation in Christ, if there is any comfort of divine love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercies,

2:2  fill my joy, that you may think the same thing, having the same divine love, being like-minded, thinking this one thing;

2:3  that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves;

2:4  looking not each after your own interests, but each after that of others.

2:5  Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus:

2:6  who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God,

2:7  but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man;

2:8  he humbled himself, being obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

2:9  Therefore God has indeed exalted him, and given him a name above every name;

2:10  that at the name of Jesus every knee must bow, of things in heaven and things upon the earth and things beneath the earth,

2:11  and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, unto the glory of God the Father.

2:12  So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

2:13  for God is the one working in you both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure.

2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputatious;

2:15  in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

2:16  having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.

2:17  But if indeed I am poured out for a sacrifice and an offering for your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice along with you all;

2:18  but you also rejoice in this same thing, and rejoice along with me.

2:19  But I hope in the Lord Jesus, speedily to send unto you Timothy, in order that I may also be delighted, having learned the things concerning you.

2:20  For I have no one like-minded, who will nobly remember the things concerning you;

2:21  for all are seeking after their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ.

2:22  But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.

2:23  Indeed then I hope to send him, so soon as I may learn the things concerning myself:

2:24  but I trust in the Lord that I myself will come speedily.

2:25  But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, and apostle and the minister of my necessity;

2:26  since he was longing after you all, and grieving, because you heard that he was sick.

2:27  For he was indeed nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not only him, but me also, in order that I may not have sorrow upon sorrow.

2:28  Therefore I the more diligently, in order that, seeing him, you may rejoice again, and I may not be without sorrow.

2:29  Then receive him in the Lord with all joy, and have such in honor:

2:30  because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me.