Thematic Bible




Philippians 2:1 (show verse)

If then I can appeal to you as the followers of Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love and any common sharing of the Spirit, or if you have any tender-heartedness and compassion, make my joy complete by being of one mind,

Philippians 2:2 (show verse)

united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.

Philippians 2:3 (show verse)

Do nothing in a spirit of factiousness or of vainglory, but, with true humility, let every one regard the rest as being of more account than himself;

Philippians 2:4 (show verse)

each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.

Philippians 2:5 (show verse)

Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:6 (show verse)

Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

Philippians 2:7 (show verse)

Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.

Philippians 2:8 (show verse)

And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.

Philippians 2:9 (show verse)

It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,

Philippians 2:10 (show verse)

in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld,

Philippians 2:11 (show verse)

and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:12 (show verse)

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

Philippians 2:13 (show verse)

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

Philippians 2:14 (show verse)

Be ever on your guard against a grudging and contentious spirit,

Philippians 2:15 (show verse)

so that you may always prove yourselves to be blameless and spotless--irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as heavenly lights in the world,

Philippians 2:16 (show verse)

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

Philippians 2:17 (show verse)

Nay, even if my life is to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I rejoice, and I congratulate you all.

Philippians 2:18 (show verse)

And I bid you also share my gladness, and congratulate me.
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Philippians 2:19 (show verse)

But, if the Lord permits it, I hope before long to send Timothy to you, that I, in turn, may be cheered by getting news of you.

Philippians 2:20 (show verse)

For I have no one likeminded with him, who will cherish a genuine care for you.

Philippians 2:21 (show verse)

Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:22 (show verse)

But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Philippians 2:23 (show verse)

So it is he that I hope to send as soon as ever I see how things go with me;

Philippians 2:24 (show verse)

but trusting, as I do, in the Lord, I believe that I shall myself also come to you before long.

Philippians 2:25 (show verse)

Yet I deem it important to send Epaphroditus to you now--he is my brother and comrade both in labour and in arms, and is your messenger who has ministered to my needs.

Philippians 2:26 (show verse)

I send him because he is longing to see you all and is distressed at your having heard of his illness.

Philippians 2:27 (show verse)

For it is true that he has been ill, and was apparently at the point of death; but God had pity on him, and not only on him, but also on me, to save me from having sorrow upon sorrow.

Philippians 2:28 (show verse)

I am therefore all the more eager to send him, in the hope that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have the less sorrow.

Philippians 2:29 (show verse)

Receive him therefore with heartfelt Christian joy, and hold in honour men like him;

Philippians 2:30 (show verse)

because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me.