{"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/ylt/philippians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:52:22.142Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Philippians","bookSlug":"philippians","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing — having the same love — of one soul — minding the one thing,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves — "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death — death even of a cross,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow — of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth — "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"All things do without murmurings and reasonings,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me — immediately;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And I thought it necessary Epaphroditus — my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need — to send unto you,"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and 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 on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me."}],"citation":{"inline":"Philippians 2 (YLT)","markdown":"[Philippians 2](https://primebible.com/ylt/philippians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/philippians/2 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}