Murdock - Philippians - 2

2:1  If, therefore, ye have consolation in the Messiah, or if a commingling of hearts in love, or if a fellowship of the Spirit, or if compassions and sympathies;

2:2  complete ye my joy, by having one apprehension, and one love, and one soul, and one mind.

2:3  And do nothing in strife, or in vain glory; but, with lowliness of mind, let each esteem his neighbor as better than himself.

2:4  And let not each be solicitous only for himself, but every one also for his neighbor.

2:5  And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the Messiah also thought;

2:6  who, as he was in the likeness of God, deemed it no trespass to be the coequal of God;

2:7  yet divested himself, and assumed the likeness of a servant, and was in the likeness of men, and was found in fashion as a man;

2:8  and he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

2:9  Wherefore, also, God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is more excellent than all names;

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

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

2:12  Therefore, my beloved, as ye have at all times obeyed, not only when I was near to you, but now when I am far from you, prosecute the work of your life, more abundantly, with fear and with trembling.

2:13  For God is operating in you, both to purpose, and also to perform that which ye desire.

2:14  Do all things without murmuring, and without altercation;

2:15  that ye may be perfect and without blemish, as the sincere children of God, who are resident in a perverse and crooked generation; and that ye may appear among them as luminaries in the world;

2:16  so that ye may be to them in place of life; for my glory in the day of the Messiah, that I may not have run in vain or toiled for naught.

2:17  And if I should be made a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and exult with you all.

2:18  And so also do ye rejoice and exult with me.

2:19  But I hope in our Lord Jesus, that I shall shortly send Timothy unto you, so that I also may have composure, when informed concerning you.

2:20  For I have no other one here, who, like my self, will sincerely care for your welfare.

2:21  For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus the Messiah.

2:22  But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, so he labored with me in the gospel.

2:23  Him I hope shortly to send to you, when I shall have seen how things result with me.

2:24  And I trust in my Lord, that I shall shortly come myself to you.

2:25  But now, a circumstance urged me to send to you Epaphroditus, the brother who is an assistant and laborer with me, but is your legate and minister to my wants.

2:26  For he longed to see you all, and was anxious, because he knew ye had heard, that he was sick.

2:27  And indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him: nor was it on him only, but also on me, that I might not have trouble upon trouble.

2:28  Promptly, therefore, have I sent him to you; so that when ye see him, ye may again be joyful, and I may have a little breathing.

2:29  Receive him then in the Lord, with all joy; and hold in honor those who are such.

2:30  For, because of the Messiah's work, he came near to death, and little regarded his life, that he might fulfill what you lacked in the ministration to me.