 2:1  If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels
and mercies,
 2:2  Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same
love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.
 2:3  [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but
in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than
themselves.
 2:4  Look not every man on his own things, but every man also
on the things of others.
 2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to
be equal with God:
 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
 2:8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
 2:9  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him
a name which is above every name:
 2:10  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
[things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] 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  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.
 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to
do of [his] good pleasure.
 2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
 2:15  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;
 2:16  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.
 2:17  Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service
of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
 2:18  For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
 2:19  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.
 2:20  For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care
for your state.
 2:21  For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus
Christ's.
 2:22  But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the
father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
 2:23  Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I
shall see how it will go with me.
 2:24  But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come
shortly.
 2:25  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.
 2:26  For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness,
because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
 2:27  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.
 2:28  I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye
see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less
sorrowful.
 2:29  Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and
hold such in reputation:
 2:30  Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death,
not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward
me.
