LO - Philippians - 2

2:1  Wherefore, if there be any consolation in Christ; if any comfort of love; if any fellowship of the Spirit; if any sympathies and tender mercies,

2:2  complete this my joy, that you be likeminded; having the very same love, being unanimous, minding the one thing.

2:3  Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but, in humbleness of mind esteem each other better that yourselves:

2:4  not aiming every one at his own interests, but every one also, at the interests of the others.

2:5  Now let this disposition be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;

2:6  who, though he was in the form of God, did not affect to appear in divine majesty;

2:7  but divested himself, taking upon him the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

2:8  and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.

2:9  And for this reason, God has exceedingly exalted him, and has bestowed on him a name which is above every name;

2:10  that, at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow; of those in heaven, and upon the earth, and under the earth;

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

2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, since you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence; effectually work out your own salvation, with fear and trembling;

2:13  for it is God who works effectually in you, both to will and to perform, on account of his benevolence.

2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputings;

2:15  that you may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, unblemished in the midst of a crooked and perverse race; among whom shine as lights in the world,

2:16  holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor have labored in vain.

2:17  Yes, and if I be made a drink-offering upon the sacrifice and ministry of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all;

2:18  and for the same do you also joy and rejoice with me.

2:19  Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be of good courage, that I also may be of good courage, when I know your affairs.

2:20  For I have no one like disposed, who will sincerely take care of your affairs;

2:21  for all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

2:22  But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with a father, so he has served with me in the gospel.

2:23  Now, indeed, I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

2:24  However, I am fully persuaded by the Lord, that even I myself shall soon come.

2:25  Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellowlaborer, and fellowsoldier; but your Apostle, and a minister to my want.

2:26  For he longed after you all, and was exceedingly grieved, because you had heard that he had been sick.

2:27  And, indeed, he was sick nigh to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

2:28  Wherefore I have sent him the more speedily, that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the more free from sorrow.

2:29  Receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and have such persons in great estimation;

2:30  because for the work of Christ, he drew nigh to death, not regarding his life, that he might fully supply the want of your service toward me.