Philippians 2:1–18

¹If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, ²fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing—having the same love—of one soul—minding the one thing, ³nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves— ⁴each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others. ⁵For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus, ⁶who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God, ⁷but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, ⁸and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death—death even of a cross, ⁹wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name, ¹⁰that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth— ¹¹and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹²So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, ¹³for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

¹⁴All things do without murmurings and reasonings, ¹⁵that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world, ¹⁶the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour; ¹⁷but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all, ¹⁸because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.