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Epistle to the Philippians, Chapter 2

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Philippians 2 NASB - New American Standard BiblePhilippians 2 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 2 of Philippians—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any 1fellowship of the Spirit, if any [a]2affection and compassion,
  2. 3make my joy complete [b]by 4being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
  3. Do nothing [c]from [d]5selfishness or 6empty conceit, but with humility of mind 7regard one another as more important than yourselves;
  4. 8do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
  5. 9Have this attitude [e]in yourselves which was also in 10Christ Jesus,
  6. who, although He 11existed in the 12form of God, 13did not regard equality with God a thing to be [f]grasped,
  7. but [g]14emptied Himself, taking the form of a 15bond-servant, and 16being made in the likeness of men.
  8. Being found in appearance as a man, 17He humbled Himself by becoming 18obedient to the point of death, even 19death [h]on a cross.
  9. 20For this reason also, God 21highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him 22the name which is above every name,
  10. so that at the name of Jesus 23EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of 24those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
  11. and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is 25Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  12. ¶ So then, my beloved, 26just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your 27salvation with 28fear and trembling;
  13. for it is 29God who is at work in you, both to will and to work 30for His good pleasure.
  14. ¶ Do all things without 31grumbling or disputing;
  15. so that you will [i]prove yourselves to be 32blameless and innocent, 33children of God above reproach in the midst of a 34crooked and perverse generation, among whom you [j]35appear as [k]lights in the world,
  16. holding [l]fast the word of life, so that in 36the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not 37run in vain nor 38toil in vain.
  17. But even if I am being 39poured out as a drink offering upon 40the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
  18. You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
  19. ¶ But I hope [m]in the Lord Jesus to 41send 42Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition.
  20. For I have no one else 43of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.
  21. For they all 44seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
  22. But you know 45of his proven worth, that 46he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel 47like a child serving his father.
  23. 48Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me;
  24. and 49I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.
  25. But I thought it necessary to send to you 50Epaphroditus, my brother and 51fellow worker and 52fellow soldier, who is also your [n]53messenger and 54minister to my need;
  26. because he was longing [o]for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.
  27. For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.
  28. Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.
  29. 55Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and 56hold men like him in high regard;
  30. because he came close to death [p]57for the work of Christ, risking his life to 58complete [q]what was deficient in your service to me.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit inward parts
  2. ^ Lit that you be
  3. ^ Lit according to
  4. ^ Or contentiousness
  5. ^ Or among
  6. ^ I.e. utilized or asserted
  7. ^ I.e. laid aside His privileges
  8. ^ Lit of
  9. ^ Or become
  10. ^ Or shine
  11. ^ Or luminaries, stars
  12. ^ Or forth
  13. ^ Or trusting in
  14. ^ Lit apostle
  15. ^ One early ms reads to see you all
  16. ^ Lit because of
  17. ^ Lit your deficiency of service

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Co 13:14
  2. ^ Col 3:12
  3. ^ Jn 3:29
  4. ^ Ro 12:16; Pp 4:2
  5. ^ Ro 2:8; Pp 1:17
  6. ^ Ga 5:26
  7. ^ Ro 12:10; Eph 5:21
  8. ^ Ro 15:1f
  9. ^ Mt 11:29; Ro 15:3
  10. ^ Pp 1:1
  11. ^ Jn 1:1
  12. ^ 2Co 4:4
  13. ^ Jn 5:18; 10:33; 14:28
  14. ^ 2Co 8:9
  15. ^ Mt 20:28
  16. ^ Jn 1:14; Ro 8:3; Ga 4:4; Heb 2:17
  17. ^ 2Co 8:9
  18. ^ Mt 26:39; Jn 10:18; Ro 5:19; Heb 5:8
  19. ^ Heb 12:2
  20. ^ Heb 1:9
  21. ^ Mt 28:18; Ac 2:33; Heb 2:9
  22. ^ Eph 1:21
  23. ^ Is 45:23; Ro 14:11
  24. ^ Eph 1:10
  25. ^ Jn 13:13; Ro 10:9; 14:9
  26. ^ Pp 1:5, 6; 4:15
  27. ^ Heb 5:9
  28. ^ 2Co 7:15
  29. ^ Ro 12:3; 1Co 12:6; 15:10; Heb 13:21
  30. ^ Eph 1:5
  31. ^ 1Co 10:10; 1Pe 4:9
  32. ^ Lu 1:6; Pp 3:6
  33. ^ Mt 5:45; Eph 5:1
  34. ^ De 32:5; Ac 2:40
  35. ^ Mt 5:14-16
  36. ^ Pp 1:6
  37. ^ Ga 2:2
  38. ^ Is 49:4; Ga 4:11; 1Th 3:5
  39. ^ 2Co 12:15; 2Ti 4:6
  40. ^ Nu 28:6, 7; Ro 15:16
  41. ^ Pp 2:23
  42. ^ Pp 1:1
  43. ^ 1Co 16:10; 2Ti 3:10
  44. ^ 1Co 10:24; 13:5; Pp 2:4
  45. ^ Ro 5:4; Ac 16:2
  46. ^ Ac 16:3; 1Co 16:10; 2Ti 3:10
  47. ^ 1Co 4:17
  48. ^ Pp 2:19
  49. ^ Pp 1:25
  50. ^ Pp 4:18
  51. ^ Ro 16:3, 9, 21; Pp 4:3; Pm 1, 24
  52. ^ Pm 2
  53. ^ Jn 13:16; 2Co 8:23
  54. ^ Pp 4:18
  55. ^ Ro 16:2
  56. ^ 1Co 16:18
  57. ^ Ac 20:24
  58. ^ 1Co 16:17; Pp 4:10

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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