{"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/erv/philippians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T09:21:31.566Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Philippians","bookSlug":"philippians","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"If there is therefore any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"fulfill ye my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on 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":"So then, my beloved, even as ye 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 worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Do all things without murmurings and disputings;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"that ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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 labour in vain."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honour:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me."}],"citation":{"inline":"Philippians 2 (ERV)","markdown":"[Philippians 2](https://primebible.com/erv/philippians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/philippians/2 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}