12 So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not [f]as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and questionings: 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as [g]lights in the world, 16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain. 17 Yea, and if I am [h]offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all: 18 and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will care [i]truly for your state. 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. 22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the [j]gospel. 23 Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me: 24 but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly. 25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your [k]messenger and minister to my need; 26 since he longed [l]after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick: 27 for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor: 30 because for the work of [m]Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
Footnotes
- Philippians 2:1 Or, persuasion
- Philippians 2:2 Some ancient authorities read of the same mind.
- Philippians 2:7 Greek bondservant.
- Philippians 2:7 Greek becoming in.
- Philippians 2:10 Or, things of the world below
- Philippians 2:12 Some ancient authorities omit as.
- Philippians 2:15 Greek luminaries. Wisd. 13:2; compare Rev. 21:11.
- Philippians 2:17 Greek poured out as a drink-offering.
- Philippians 2:20 Greek genuinely.
- Philippians 2:22 Greek good tidings. See 1:5.
- Philippians 2:25 Greek apostle.
- Philippians 2:26 Many ancient authorities read to see you all.
- Philippians 2:30 Many ancient authorities read the Lord.