Philippians 2

¹²Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

¹²No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

⁷Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

⁸Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

¹⁴The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

¹A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

²that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

¹⁶Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

⁸Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

⁹Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

¹⁰I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.

¹¹Finally, brothers, rejoice! Aim for perfect harmony, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

⁴I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

⁵Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,

⁶so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

²⁶Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.

²¹Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

²with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

⁵Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

¹⁴But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

¹⁵Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

²⁴No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

¹We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

⁸If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

³²Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

³³as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

¹⁵Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

⁶Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

²⁹Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

²¹For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

¹Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

³³as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

²⁶It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

²⁷and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave—

¹⁸Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

⁴The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

³The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

⁵And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

¹⁵The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

¹⁶For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

³⁰I and the Father are one.”

⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

²⁸just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

¹⁴The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

³For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

²He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

³He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

⁴But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

¹⁸No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

²Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁹For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

²⁴He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

¹⁸For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

¹⁶And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND Lord OF LORDS.

¹⁸Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

²²who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

¹³Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.

⁹But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

²⁰which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

²¹far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

²³By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.

²⁴Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the Lord alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.

¹⁸Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

¹³And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”

¹⁴And the four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

⁶And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

¹⁰Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.

¹¹It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”

¹⁴... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

¹⁵If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

¹¹It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”

¹³You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.

⁹For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

²By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

³Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

⁵For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

⁶and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;

²³“Lord,” someone asked Him, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered,

²⁴“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

¹¹Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

¹¹Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

¹⁴I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

²¹equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁵Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

⁹He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

¹⁶So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

¹¹In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

⁹Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

¹⁰And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

⁹Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!

³¹Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

³²Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

³Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

¹⁸If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.

¹⁴You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

¹⁵Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

¹²Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

⁴⁵that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

¹Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.

¹Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

²Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

⁵His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

²⁶Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

²I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.

¹That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.

⁵For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and that our labor might have been in vain.

⁶⁸Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

¹⁴as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.

⁶For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

¹⁵Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

¹⁶And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

¹⁶to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁵And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

¹Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

⁴Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows.

²Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

³because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

⁴Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

¹Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

¹³So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.

¹⁷That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

⁶But just now, Timothy has returned from his visit with the good news about your faith, your love, and the fond memories you have preserved, longing to see us just as we long to see you.

⁷For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.

²We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

¹Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:

⁵because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.

⁶I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.

²³So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me.

²⁴And I trust in the Lord that I myself will come soon.

²then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.

²²But you know Timothy’s proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel.

¹⁰If Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.

³Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

⁶Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.

¹³The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

²⁴No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

³³as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

⁴Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

²⁴Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

²For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

¹⁷That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

²To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹My purpose in writing you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.

²To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

²²And we are sending along with them our brother who has proven his earnestness to us many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.

¹⁸Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,

¹⁹Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I learn how you are doing.

³From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”

¹⁴Instead, I hope to see you soon and speak with you face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send you greetings. Greet each of our friends there by name.

²²In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

²⁵Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,

²⁶so that through my coming to you again your exultation in Christ Jesus will resound on account of me.

²⁸So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you.

²⁹I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

¹⁹Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I learn how you are doing.

¹²I have many things to write to you, but I would prefer not to do so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come and speak with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

¹⁸I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

¹Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker,

²to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets at your house:

³Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have contended at my side for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

⁹For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

⁷You learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

³Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

⁴A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.

⁸God is my witness how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

³to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

¹⁵Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

²⁵Anxiety weighs down the heart of a man, but a good word cheers it up.

¹³So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.

³⁹And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them all.

³⁰because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

³⁷At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.

⁷So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

¹³No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

³He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

⁴who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

²²So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

⁴Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.

²⁶For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.

²⁷He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

³⁸They were especially grieved by his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

³I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be grieved by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.

²⁷However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.

²⁸“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”

¹²But we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who work diligently among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you.

¹⁸For they refreshed my spirit and yours as well. Show your appreciation, therefore, to such men.

¹⁷Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

²Welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her with anything she may need from you. For she has been a great help to many people, including me.

⁴⁰He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.

⁴¹Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

¹⁸For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

¹⁷I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have arrived, because they have supplied what was lacking from you.

¹⁰Now I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it.

²⁴But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

¹⁸I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

¹⁷But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

⁴who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.