Philippians 2:1-16

Complete Jewish Bible

2 Therefore, if you have any encouragement for me from your being in union with the Messiah, any comfort flowing from love, any fellowship with me in the Spirit, or any compassion and sympathy, ²then complete my joy by having a common purpose and a common love, by being one in heart and mind. ³Do nothing out of rivalry or vanity; but, in humility, regard each other as better than yourselves — ⁴look out for each other’s interests and not just for your own.

⁵Let your attitude toward one another be governed by your being in union with the Messiah Yeshua:

⁶Though he was in the form of God,
he did not regard equality with God
something to be possessed by force.
⁷On the contrary, he emptied himself,
in that he took the form of a slave
by becoming like human beings are.

And when he appeared as a human being,
⁸he humbled himself still more
by becoming obedient even to death —
death on a stake as a criminal!
⁹Therefore God raised him to the highest place
and gave him the name above every name;

¹⁰that in honor of the name given Yeshua,
every knee will bow —
in heaven, on earth and under the earth —
¹¹and every tongue will acknowledge^[a]
that Yeshua the Messiah is Adonai —
to the glory of God the Father.

¹²So, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey now when I am away from you: keep working out your deliverance with fear and trembling,^[b] ¹³for God is the one working among you both the willing and the working for what pleases him. ¹⁴Do everything without kvetching or arguing, ¹⁵so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation,^[c] among whom you shine like stars in the sky, ¹⁶as you hold on to the Word of Life. If you do this, I will be able to boast, when the Day of the Messiah comes, that I did not run or toil for nothing.