{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "philippians", "chapter": 2 }, "data": { "n": 2, "bookSlug": "philippians", "bookCode": "PHP", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "PHP-2:1", "verseRef": "PHP.2.1", "text": "If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions," },{ "n": 2, "refId": "PHP-2:2", "verseRef": "PHP.2.2", "text": "make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "PHP-2:3", "verseRef": "PHP.2.3", "text": "[doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "PHP-2:4", "verseRef": "PHP.2.4", "text": "not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "PHP-2:5", "verseRef": "PHP.2.5", "text": "Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "PHP-2:6", "verseRef": "PHP.2.6", "text": "who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped," },{ "n": 7, "refId": "PHP-2:7", "verseRef": "PHP.2.7", "text": "but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "PHP-2:8", "verseRef": "PHP.2.8", "text": "and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "PHP-2:9", "verseRef": "PHP.2.9", "text": "Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "PHP-2:10", "verseRef": "PHP.2.10", "text": "that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] on earth and [things] under the earth," },{ "n": 11, "refId": "PHP-2:11", "verseRef": "PHP.2.11", "text": "and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "PHP-2:12", "verseRef": "PHP.2.12", "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;" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "PHP-2:13", "verseRef": "PHP.2.13", "text": "for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "PHP-2:14", "verseRef": "PHP.2.14", "text": "Do all things without murmurings and questionings:" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "PHP-2:15", "verseRef": "PHP.2.15", "text": "that ye may become 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," },{ "n": 16, "refId": "PHP-2:16", "verseRef": "PHP.2.16", "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 labor in vain." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "PHP-2:17", "verseRef": "PHP.2.17", "text": "Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "PHP-2:18", "verseRef": "PHP.2.18", "text": "and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "PHP-2:19", "verseRef": "PHP.2.19", "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." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "PHP-2:20", "verseRef": "PHP.2.20", "text": "For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "PHP-2:21", "verseRef": "PHP.2.21", "text": "For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "PHP-2:22", "verseRef": "PHP.2.22", "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." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "PHP-2:23", "verseRef": "PHP.2.23", "text": "Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me:" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "PHP-2:24", "verseRef": "PHP.2.24", "text": "but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "PHP-2:25", "verseRef": "PHP.2.25", "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;" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "PHP-2:26", "verseRef": "PHP.2.26", "text": "since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "PHP-2:27", "verseRef": "PHP.2.27", "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." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "PHP-2:28", "verseRef": "PHP.2.28", "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." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "PHP-2:29", "verseRef": "PHP.2.29", "text": "Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor:" },{ "n": 30, "refId": "PHP-2:30", "verseRef": "PHP.2.30", "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." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/philippians/chapters/2", "book": "/v1/library/books/philippians/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/philippians/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }