Philippians 2

Philippians 2:1

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels, and mercies,

Let me not entreat you only, but adjure you, brethren, as ever ye would receive any comfort in Christ, as ever ye would reap benefit by his love and your own; if ye have any sense of that spiritual communion which is between the saints of God, if ye have any compassion and mercy on me and God’s Church;

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Fulfil ye my joy that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Do ye herein make up the full measure of my joy, in that ye be peaceably and lovingly affected one towards another.

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Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Do not ye so much bend your eyes upon your own good parts, admiring them and priding yourselves in them; as upon the more excellent graces of other men: neither be so much intent upon your own private commodities, as upon the good of others.

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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Be ye so humbly and charitably minded, and so respect the good of others, with neglect of your own, as ye see Christ Jesus your Saviour did:

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Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Who, being very God, and knowing it to be no presumption in him to equalize himself to God the Father;

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But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Yet voluntarily humbled and abased himself, and took upon him a mean and contemptible condition, here on earth; and, as he stooped so low as to become man, so he framed himself to the state and yielded to the infirmities of man:

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And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

And, being found in the nature and form of man, he did, in that his humanity, humble himself so far as to become obedient even unto death, and that the most painful and ignominious death of the cross.

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Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

Upon which wonderful humiliation of his, it hath pleased

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That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

That, in the acknowledgement of this just title and divine power of his, every creature should bow and stoop unto him, both the angels of heaven, and men on earth, and the very infernal spirits which are most averse from his kingdom;

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And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

And that every tongue should be forced to confess, that even that Jesus, who was thus abased, is the God and Lord of all.

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But now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But now, much more, in my absence, since ye shall want the help of my counsels and incitements, stir up yourselves earnestly, to do all that is requisite on your part, for the attaining of salvation; not in a bold and secure presumption of your own abilities, but in an humble fear and awful trembling at the consideration of the greatness of the work and your own insufficiency.

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For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

For it is not any power or ability in yourselves, that can avail ought this way; but it is God only, who gives you both to will that which is good, and to do the good which ye will, of his mere good will and pleasure.

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Do all things without murmurings and disputings.

Frame yourselves to all peaceable carriage, one towards another; and do all things without heart-burnings and quarrels.

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Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Yea, if I do not only labour amongst you, but even die for you, it shall be my joy: you have, by your holy and lively faith, offered yourselves unto God, as a living and reasonable sacrifice; if I may die for the confirmation of this faith of yours, it shall be that whereof I shall rejoice together with you.

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For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

For I have no man so heartily affected, both to you and me; who will so carefully mind and tender your estate, as if it were his own.

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And was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

It much troubled him, to think how much you would be afflicted with the rumour of his sickness.

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Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

Because, for the work of Christ, through his labour in preaching, and the toil of his journey hither for my comfort and tendance, and his watchings and pains-taking in ministering to my necessities, he was nigh unto death; not regarding his own life, in a zeal to supply your lack of service toward me.