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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation
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| 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, |
If, then, any exhortation `is' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, |
| 2:2 |
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. |
fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing -- having the same love -- of one soul -- minding the one thing, |
| 2:3 |
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. |
nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves -- |
| 2:4 |
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. |
each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others. |
| 2:5 |
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: |
For, let this mind be in you that `is' also in Christ Jesus, |
| 2:6 |
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: |
who, being in the form of God, thought `it' not robbery to be equal to God, |
| 2:7 |
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: |
but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, |
| 2:8 |
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. |
and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross, |
| 2:9 |
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: |
wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that `is' above every name, |
| 2:10 |
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 name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth -- |
| 2:11 |
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ `is' Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
| 2:12 |
Wherefore, my beloved, 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. |
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, |
| 2:13 |
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. |
for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure. |
| 2:14 |
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: |
All things do without murmurings and reasonings, |
| 2:15 |
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; |
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, |
| 2:16 |
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. |
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; |
| 2:17 |
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. |
but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all, |
| 2:18 |
For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. |
because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me. |
| 2:19 |
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. |
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, |
| 2:20 |
For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. |
for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care, |
| 2:21 |
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. |
for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus, |
| 2:22 |
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. |
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; |
| 2:23 |
Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. |
him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me -- immediately; |
| 2:24 |
But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. |
and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come. |
| 2:25 |
Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. |
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, |
| 2:26 |
For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. |
seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed, |
| 2:27 |
For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. |
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. |
| 2:28 |
I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. |
The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful; |
| 2:29 |
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: |
receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour, |
| 2:30 |
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. |
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. |
