{"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/dbt/philippians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-28T20:15:42.721Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Philippians","bookSlug":"philippians","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in the likeness of men;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to God the Father's glory."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"In like manner do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall soon come;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me."}],"citation":{"inline":"Philippians 2 (DBT)","markdown":"[Philippians 2](https://primebible.com/dbt/philippians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/philippians/2 (accessed 2026-05-28)."}}