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| 2:1 |
 f there bee therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of loue, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels, & mercies; |
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| 2:2 |
Fulfill ye my ioy, that yee be like minded, hauing the same loue, being of one accord, of one minde. |
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| 2:3 |
Let nothing bee done through strife, or vaine glory, but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme other better then themselues. |
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| 2:4 |
Looke not euery man on his owne things, but euery man also on the things of others. |
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| 2:5 |
Let this minde bee in you, which was also in Christ Iesus: |
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| 2:6 |
Who being in the forme of God, thought it not robbery to bee equall with God: |
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| 2:7 |
But made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant, and was made in the likenesse of men. |
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| 2:8 |
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto death, euen the death of the Crosse. |
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| 2:9 |
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name which is aboue euery name: |
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| 2:10 |
That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bow, of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth: |
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| 2:11 |
And that euery tongue should confesse, that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
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| 2:12 |
Wherefore, my beloued, as yee haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence onely, but now much more in my absence; worke out your owne saluation with feare, and trembling. |
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| 2:13 |
For it is God which worketh in you, both to will, and to doe, of his good pleasure. |
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| 2:14 |
Doe all things without murmurings, and disputings: |
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| 2:15 |
That yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse, the sonnes of God, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and peruerse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world: |
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| 2:16 |
Holding foorth the word of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I haue not runne in vaine, neither laboured in vaine. |
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| 2:17 |
Yea, and if I bee offered vpon the sacrifice and seruice of your faith, I ioy, and reioyce with you all. |
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| 2:18 |
For the same cause also doe ye ioy, and reioyce with me. |
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| 2:19 |
But I trust in the Lord Iesus, to send Timotheus shortly vnto you, that I also may bee of good comfort, when I know your state. |
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| 2:20 |
For I haue no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state. |
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| 2:21 |
For all seeke their owne, not the things which are Iesus Christs. |
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| 2:22 |
But ye know the proofe of him, That as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me, in the Gospel. |
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| 2:23 |
Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soone as I shall see how it wil goe with me. |
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| 2:24 |
But I trust in the Lord, that I also my selfe shall come shortly. |
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| 2:25 |
Yet I supposed it necessary, to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour, and fellow souldiour, but your messenger, and hee that ministred to my wants. |
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| 2:26 |
For hee longed after you all, and was full of heauinesse, because that yee had heard that he had bene sicke. |
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| 2:27 |
For indeed he was sicke nigh vnto death, but God had mercy on him: and not on him onely, but on mee also, lest I should haue sorow vpon sorow. |
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| 2:28 |
I sent him therefore the more carefully, that when ye see him againe, ye may reioyce, and that I may bee the lesse sorrowfull. |
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| 2:29 |
Receiue him therfore in the Lord with all gladnesse, and hold such in reputation: |
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| 2:30 |
Because for the worke of Christ he was nigh vnto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lacke of seruice toward me. |
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