Philippians 1:27–2:18

27  Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings; 28  and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God; 29  because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also, 30  having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.

Chapter 2

1  If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions, 2  fulfil 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; 4  regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also. 5  For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus; 6  who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; 7  but emptied himself, taking a bondman’s form, taking his place in the likeness of men; 8  and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross. 9  Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name, 10  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings, 11  and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to God the Father’s glory.

12  So 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, 13  for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.

14  Do all things without murmurings and reasonings, 15  that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world, 16  holding 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. 17  But 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. 18  In like manner do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me.