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Philippians 2:1-13

Lexham English Bible

Humility and Unity

2 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, 2 complete my joy, so that you are in agreement[a], having the same love, united in spirit, having one purpose[b]. 3 Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves, 4 each of you[c] not looking out for your own interests[d], but also each of you for the interests[e] of others.

Christ’s Humiliation and Exaltation

5 Think this in[f] yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

6 who, existing in the form of God,
    did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself
    by[g] taking the form of a slave,
    by[h] becoming in the likeness of people.
And being found in appearance like a man,
8 he humbled himself
    by[i] becoming obedient to the point of death,
        that is, death on a cross.
9 Therefore also God exalted him
    and graciously granted him the name above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow,
    of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

Holding Fast to the Word of Life

12 Therefore my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.

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Footnotes

Philippians 2:2 Literally “you think the same thing
Philippians 2:2 Literally “thinking the one thing”
Philippians 2:4 Some manuscripts have “each one of you”
Philippians 2:4 Literally “the things of yourselves”
Philippians 2:4 Literally “the things”
Philippians 2:5 Or “among”
Philippians 2:7 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“taking”) which is understood as means
Philippians 2:7 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“becoming”) which is understood as means
Philippians 2:8 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“becoming”) which is understood as means