Noyes - Philippians - 2

2:1  If then there is any exhortation in Christ, if any encouragement from love, if any partaking of the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,

2:2  make my joy full, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, with union of soul cherishing one mind;

2:3  doing nothing in the spirit of faction, or in the spirit of vain-glory, but in humility esteeming others as better than yourselves;

2:4  looking each of you not to his own interest, but each to the interest of others also.

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

2:6  who, being in the form of God, did not regard it as a thing to be grasped at to be on an equality with God,

2:7  but made himself of no consideration, taking the form of a servant, and becoming like men;

2:8  and in what appertained to him appearing as a man, he humbled himself, and was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

2:9  Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name;

2:10  that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and those on earth, and those 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 ye 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 worketh in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

2:14  Do all things without murmurings and doubts;

2:15  that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,

2:16  holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.

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

2:18  For the same reason, do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

2:19  But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I know your state.

2:20  For I have no one like-minded, who will have a true concern for your state;

2:21  for all of them are seeking their own things, not those of Christ Jesus.

2:22  But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son serves a father, he served with me for the gospel.

2:23  Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, as soon as I see how it will go with me;

2:24  but I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come soon.

2:25  Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and minister to my wants;

2:26  for he was longing after you all, and was much troubled, because ye heard that he was sick.

2:27  For indeed he was sick near to 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  I send him therefore the more speedily, that when ye see him ye may again rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

2:29  Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor;

2:30  because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.