CHAPTER
2
Be humble like
Christ
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,
(2
Corinthians 13:14 - Colossians 3:11)
2 fulfil ye my
joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord,
of one mind.
(1
Peter 3: 8)
3 Let nothing be
done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem
other better than themselves.
(Romans
12:10 - Galatians
5:26 - 1
Peter 5:5)
4 Look not every
man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind
be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 who, being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 but made himself of no
reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men:
8 and being found in fashion
as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth;
11 and that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Shine like lights
in a dark world
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.
13 For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things
without murmurings and disputings:
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;
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.
17 Yea, and if I be offered
upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you
all.
18 For the same cause also
do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
Those who will
soon come to you
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.
20 For I have no man likeminded,
who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own,
not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But ye know the proof
of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to
send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24 But I trust in the Lord
that I also myself shall come shortly.
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.
26 For he longed after you
all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been
sick.
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.
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.
29 Receive him therefore
in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
30 because for the work of
Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack
of service toward me.
2 Corinthians 13:14
