---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Philippians from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 2
verse_count: 30
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Philippians, chap. 2, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Philippians 2

*Paul exhorteth to unity, Christ's humility and exaltation— The saints to be lights to the world.*

**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** Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
**3** Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
**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.
**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 a sacrifice upon the service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
**18** For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
**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 like-minded, 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 fellow-soldier, 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.