Philippians 2:1-18

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

2fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

3[let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

4regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of others also.

5For let this mind be in you which [was] also in Christ Jesus;

6who, subsisting in the form of 1God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with 2God;

7but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in [the] likeness of men;

8and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of [the] cross.

9Wherefore also 3God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal [beings],

11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord to 4God [the] Father's glory.

12So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

13for it is 5God who works in you both the willing and the working according to [his] good pleasure.

14Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,

15that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of 6God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in [the] world,

16holding forth [the] word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

17But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.

18In like manner do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me.