{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/philippians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-28T19:25:09.341Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Philippians","bookSlug":"philippians","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Fulfill you my joy, that you be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But made himself of no reputation, and took on him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Why God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why, my beloved, 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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Do all things without murmurings and disputings:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the middle of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Yes, and if I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard that he had been sick."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For indeed he was sick near to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow on sorrow."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me."}],"citation":{"inline":"Philippians 2 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Philippians 2](https://primebible.com/akjv/philippians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/philippians/2 (accessed 2026-05-28)."}}