PHILIPPIANS 2:1 THEREFORE IF YOU HAVE ANY ENCOURAGEMENT FROM BEING UNITED WITH CHRIST, IF ANY COMFORT FROM HIS LOVE, IF ANY COMMON SHARING IN THE SPIRIT, IF ANY TENDERNESS AND COMPASSION,
PHILIPPIANS 2:2 THEN MAKE MY JOY COMPLETE BY BEING LIKE-MINDED, HAVING THE SAME LOVE, BEING ONE IN SPIRIT AND OF ONE MIND.
PHILIPPIANS 2:3 DO NOTHING OUT OF SELFISH AMBITION OR VAIN CONCEIT. RATHER, IN HUMILITY VALUE OTHERS ABOVE YOURSELVES,
PHILIPPIANS 2:4 NOT LOOKING TO YOUR OWN INTERESTS BUT EACH OF YOU TO THE INTERESTS OF THE OTHERS.
PHILIPPIANS 2:5 IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH ONE ANOTHER, HAVE THE SAME MINDSET AS CHRIST JESUS:
PHILIPPIANS 2:6 WHO, BEING IN VERY NATURE GOD, DID NOT CONSIDER EQUALITY WITH GOD SOMETHING TO BE USED TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE;
PHILIPPIANS 2:7 RATHER, HE MADE HIMSELF NOTHING BY TAKING THE VERY NATURE OF A SERVANT, BEING MADE IN HUMAN LIKENESS.
PHILIPPIANS 2:8 AND BEING FOUND IN APPEARANCE AS A MAN, HE HUMBLED HIMSELF BY BECOMING OBEDIENT TO DEATH-- EVEN DEATH ON A CROSS!
PHILIPPIANS 2:9 THEREFORE GOD EXALTED HIM TO THE HIGHEST PLACE AND GAVE HIM THE NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME,
PHILIPPIANS 2:10 THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH AND UNDER THE EARTH,
PHILIPPIANS 2:11 AND EVERY TONGUE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.
PHILIPPIANS 2:12 THEREFORE, MY DEAR FRIENDS, AS YOU HAVE ALWAYS OBEYED--NOT ONLY IN MY PRESENCE, BUT NOW MUCH MORE IN MY ABSENCE--CONTINUE TO WORK OUT YOUR SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING,
PHILIPPIANS 2:13 FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN YOU TO WILL AND TO ACT IN ORDER TO FULFILL HIS GOOD PURPOSE.
PHILIPPIANS 2:14 DO EVERYTHING WITHOUT GRUMBLING OR ARGUING,
PHILIPPIANS 2:15 SO THAT YOU MAY BECOME BLAMELESS AND PURE, 'CHILDREN OF GOD WITHOUT FAULT IN A WARPED AND CROOKED GENERATION.' THEN YOU WILL SHINE AMONG THEM LIKE STARS IN THE SKY
PHILIPPIANS 2:16 AS YOU HOLD FIRMLY TO THE WORD OF LIFE. AND THEN I WILL BE ABLE TO BOAST ON THE DAY OF CHRIST THAT I DID NOT RUN OR LABOR IN VAIN.
PHILIPPIANS 2:17 BUT EVEN IF I AM BEING POURED OUT LIKE A DRINK OFFERING ON THE SACRIFICE AND SERVICE COMING FROM YOUR FAITH, I AM GLAD AND REJOICE WITH ALL OF YOU.
PHILIPPIANS 2:18 SO YOU TOO SHOULD BE GLAD AND REJOICE WITH ME.
PHILIPPIANS 2:19 I HOPE IN THE LORD JESUS TO SEND TIMOTHY TO YOU SOON, THAT I ALSO MAY BE CHEERED WHEN I RECEIVE NEWS ABOUT YOU.
PHILIPPIANS 2:20 I HAVE NO ONE ELSE LIKE HIM, WHO WILL SHOW GENUINE CONCERN FOR YOUR WELFARE.
PHILIPPIANS 2:21 FOR EVERYONE LOOKS OUT FOR THEIR OWN INTERESTS, NOT THOSE OF JESUS CHRIST.
PHILIPPIANS 2:22 BUT YOU KNOW THAT TIMOTHY HAS PROVED HIMSELF, BECAUSE AS A SON WITH HIS FATHER HE HAS SERVED WITH ME IN THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL.
PHILIPPIANS 2:23 I HOPE, THEREFORE, TO SEND HIM AS SOON AS I SEE HOW THINGS GO WITH ME.
PHILIPPIANS 2:24 AND I AM CONFIDENT IN THE LORD THAT I MYSELF WILL COME SOON.
PHILIPPIANS 2:25 BUT I THINK IT IS NECESSARY TO SEND BACK TO YOU EPAPHRODITUS, MY BROTHER, CO-WORKER AND FELLOW SOLDIER, WHO IS ALSO YOUR MESSENGER, WHOM YOU SENT TO TAKE CARE OF MY NEEDS.
PHILIPPIANS 2:26 FOR HE LONGS FOR ALL OF YOU AND IS DISTRESSED BECAUSE YOU HEARD HE WAS ILL.
PHILIPPIANS 2:27 INDEED HE WAS ILL, AND ALMOST DIED. BUT GOD HAD MERCY ON HIM, AND NOT ON HIM ONLY BUT ALSO ON ME, TO SPARE ME SORROW UPON SORROW.
PHILIPPIANS 2:28 THEREFORE I AM ALL THE MORE EAGER TO SEND HIM, SO THAT WHEN YOU SEE HIM AGAIN YOU MAY BE GLAD AND I MAY HAVE LESS ANXIETY.
PHILIPPIANS 2:29 SO THEN, WELCOME HIM IN THE LORD WITH GREAT JOY, AND HONOR PEOPLE LIKE HIM,
PHILIPPIANS 2:30 because he almost died for the work of Christ. He risked his life to make up for the help you yourselves could not give me.