Anderson - Philippians - 2

2:1  If, therefore, there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort arising from love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies,

2:2  fulfill my joy, that you be of the same mind, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind;

2:3  doing nothing in strife and vain glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

2:4  Consider not each one his own gifts, but each one also the gifts of others.

2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

2:6  who, being in the form of God, did not think it an act of robbery to be equal with God;

2:7  but he divested himself by taking the form of a servant, and being made in the likeness of men:

2:8  and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient even to death, the death, indeed, of the cross.

2:9  For which reason God has highly exalted him, and, also, bestowed on him a name that is above every name;

2:10  that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow of those who are in heaven, and those who are on earth, and those who are 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  So, then, my beloved, as you 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;

2:13  for it is God, who, of his good pleasure, works in you both the will and the power to perform.

2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputings,

2:15  that you may be without reproach and Harmless, the children of God, without blame, in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as luminaries in the world,

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

2:17  But if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

2:18  In like manner do you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

2:19  But I trust in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be refreshed by knowing your condition;

2:20  for I have no one of a kindred spirit who will sincerely care for your condition:

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

2:22  But you know his approved character, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

2:23  Him, therefore, I hope to send immediately, as soon as I know how it may go with me.

2:24  But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

2:25  Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labor and fellow-soldier, but your apostle, who also ministered to my want,

2:26  because he longed after you all, and was much distressed, because you had heard that he was sick.

2:27  And, indeed, he was sick near 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  I sent him, therefore, the sooner, that, by seeing him again, you might rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.

2:29  Receive him, therefore, in the Lord with all joy, and regard such as worthy of honor;

2:30  because for the work of the Christ he was near to death, not regarding his life, that he might supply that which was lacking in your service to me.