빌립보서 2장 NASB
- 1 Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ if there is any consolation of love if there is any fellowship of the Spirit if any affection and compassion
- 2 make my joy complete by being of the same mind maintaining the same love united in spirit intent on one purpose.
- 3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;
- 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests but also for the interests of others.
- 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus
- 6 who although He existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped
- 7 but emptied Himself taking the form of a bond-servant and being made in the likeness of men.
- 8 Being found in appearance as a man He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even death on a cross.
- 9 For this reason also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name
- 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth
- 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
- 12 So then my beloved just as you have always obeyed not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence work out your salvation with fear and trembling;
- 13 for it is God who is at work in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
- 14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing;
- 15 so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you appear as lights in the world
- 16 holding fast the word of life so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.
- 17 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
- 18 You too I urge you rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
- 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition.
- 20 For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.
- 21 For they all seek after their own interests not those of Christ Jesus.
- 22 But you know of his proven worth that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.
- 23 Therefore I hope to send him immediately as soon as I see how things go with me;
- 24 and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.
- 25 But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier who is also your messenger and minister to my need;
- 26 because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.
- 27 For indeed he was sick to the point of death but God had mercy on him and not on him only but also on me so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.
- 28 Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.
- 29 Receive him then in the Lord with all joy and hold men like him in high regard;
- 30 because he came close to death for the work of Christ risking his life to complete what was deficient in your service to me.