Philippians, 2

1. So if in Christ there is anything that will move you, any incentive in love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any warmth or sympathy -- I appeal to you,

1. If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2. make my joy complete by being of a single mind, one in love, one in heart and one in mind.

2. Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.

3. Nothing is to be done out of jealousy or vanity; instead, out of humility of mind everyone should give preference to others,

3. [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

4. everyone pursuing not selfish interests but those of others.

4. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

5. Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:

5. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

6. Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.

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

7. But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being,

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. he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.

8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

9. And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names;

9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

10. so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus

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 acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

11. And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

12. So, my dear friends, you have always been obedient; your obedience must not be limited to times when I am present. Now that I am absent it must be more in evidence, so work out your salvation in fear and trembling.

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. It is God who, for his own generous purpose, gives you the intention and the powers to act.

13. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.

14. Let your behaviour be free of murmuring and complaining

14. Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

15. so that you remain faultless and pure, unspoilt children of God surrounded by a deceitful and underhand brood, shining out among them like bright stars in the world,

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. proffering to it the Word of life. Then I shall have reason to be proud on the Day of Christ, for it will not be for nothing that I have run the race and toiled so hard.

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. Indeed, even if my blood has to be poured as a libation over your sacrifice and the offering of your faith, then I shall be glad and join in your rejoicing-

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

18. and in the same way, you must be glad and join in my rejoicing.

18. For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

19. I hope, in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you soon, so that my mind may be set at rest when I hear how you are.

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. There is nobody else that I can send who is like him and cares as sincerely for your well-being;

20. For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

21. they all want to work for themselves, not for Jesus Christ.

21. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

22. But you know what sort of person he has proved himself, working with me for the sake of the gospel like a son with his father.

22. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

23. That is the man, then, that I am hoping to send to you immediately I can make out what is going to happen to me;

23. Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

24. but I am confident in the Lord that I shall come myself, too, before long.

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

25. Nevertheless I thought it essential to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and companion-in-arms since he came as your representative to look after my needs;

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. because he was missing you all and was worrying because you had heard that he was ill.

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

27. Indeed he was seriously ill and nearly died; but God took pity on him -- and not only on him but also on me, to spare me one grief on top of another.

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. So I am sending him back as promptly as I can so that you will have the joy of seeing him again, and that will be some comfort to me in my distress.

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. Welcome him in the Lord, then, with all joy; hold people like him in honour,

29. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

30. because it was for Christ's work that he came so near to dying, risking his life to do the duty to me which you could not do yourselves.

30. Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.