New Testament · BSB
Philippians 2
Berean Standard Bible · 30 verses
- Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
- then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.
- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
- Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
- Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
- Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
- but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
- And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.
- Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
- that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
- and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
- For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
- Do everything without complaining or arguing,
- so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
- But 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.
- So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
- Now 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.
- I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs.
- For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
- But you know Timothy’s proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel.
- So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me.
- And I trust in the Lord that I myself will come soon.
- But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.
- For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.
- He 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.
- Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.
- Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,
- because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.