|
|
[KJV] chapters
[1][3],[4]
Philipians 2
1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ,
ifany comfort of love, if any fellowship of the
Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having
the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory;
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better
than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every
man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon
him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye 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.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will
and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of
God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the
world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice
in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain,
neither laboured in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and
service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you
all.
18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice
with me.
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus
shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort,
when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally
care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are
Jesus Christ's.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with
the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as
I shall see how it will go with me.
24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall
come shortly.
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you
Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour,
and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that
ministered to my wants.
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of
heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been
sick.
27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God
had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me
also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that,
when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may
be the less sorrowful.
29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all
gladness; and hold such in reputation:
30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto
death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of
service toward me.
|
|
| |
