MKJV - Philippians - 2

2:1  If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tendernesses and mercies,

2:2  then fulfill my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind.

2:3  Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.

2:4  Do not let each man look upon his own things, but each man also on the things of others.

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

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

2:7  but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.

2:8  And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

2:9  Therefore God has highly exalted Him, and has given Him a name which is above every name,

2:10  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones 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  Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling.

2:13  For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputings,

2:15  so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,

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

2:17  Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

2:18  And you also rejoice in the same, and rejoice with me.

2:19  But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.

2:20  For I have no one who is like-minded, who will naturally care for your state.

2:21  For all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ.

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

2:23  Therefore I hope to send him presently, as soon as I shall see the things about me.

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

2:25  Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and he who ministered to my wants.

2:26  For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had been sick.

2:27  For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

2:28  Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

2:29  Therefore receive him in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor,

2:30  because for the work of Christ he was near death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.