--- title: "Philippians 2 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Philippians 2 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 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," image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/philippians/2" --- [ Read](/kjv/philippians/2)[ Commentary](/study/philippians/2)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/philippians/2) Audio 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 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. 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. [Philippians 1](/study/philippians/1) [Philippians 3](/study/philippians/3) ## Commentary To verse 1 The apostle, reassuming his exhortation in the former chapter to unanimity, [Philippians 1:27](/kjv/philippians/1/27), doth here, by way of inference from what went immediately before, press them in a very affectionate manner, with a kind of rhetorical relation, and obtestation, as it were, adjure them. **If there be therefore any consolation in Christ;**if any such exhortation, (as the word is rendered, [Acts 13:15](/kjv/acts/13/15); [1 Thessalonians 2:3](/kjv/1-thessalonians/2/3); [1 Timothy 4:13](/kjv/1-timothy/4/13)), in the name of Christ, might avail with them to cheer him and one another by their loving concord and being unanimous. Or as we, rendering it *consolation;*;{ so [Romans 15:4](/kjv/romans/15/4); [2 Corinthians 1:4](/kjv/2-corinthians/1/4)} *If,*which he may well suppose, and strongly affirm that he took it for granted, the main body of them had in some measure found by his ministry, what he here moves them to complete, {compare [Philippians 1:6](/kjv/philippians/1/6),[Philippians 1:7](/kjv/philippians/1/7),[Philippians 1:27](/kjv/philippians/1/27)} in expectation to find more of what they had experimented, whatever indisposition might have crept upon some by the insinuations of the false apostles; yet, this **consolation in Christ** may be considered either: 1. Actively: q.d. If ye would comfort me afflicted, in the concerns of Christ, or if ye have any Christian comfort which doth only proceed from those that are in Christ, (not from moral philosophy), or which is wont to be in those who worship the same Christ, let me his apostle be a partaker thereof. Or: 2. Passively, [2 Corinthians 7:4](/kjv/2-corinthians/7/4),[2 Corinthians 7:6](/kjv/2-corinthians/7/6); [Philemon 1:7](/kjv/philemon/1/7); If you, being in Christ, find any consolation against your afflictions, forasmuch as you have receivcd it by my ministry, we, being both in suffering circumstances, should be further comforted by a sweet agreement. **If any comfort of love;**the Syriac renders it, any speaking to the heart, any solace from good and comfortable words did reach your hearts, [John 11:19](/kjv/john/11/19),[John 11:31](/kjv/john/11/31); [1 Corinthians 14:3](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/3); [1 Thessalonians 2:11](/kjv/1-thessalonians/2/11); [1 Thessalonians 5:14](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/14), cheered with the love of God or Christ, or the brethren: or refreshed with my love to you, [Philippians 1:8](/kjv/philippians/1/8),[Philippians 1:9](/kjv/philippians/1/9); or would that I should be conforted with your love to me, (as he himself and others were with the gracious affections of the Corinthians, [2 Corinthians 7:7](/kjv/2-corinthians/7/7)), which ye ought unfeignedly. **If any fellowship of the Spirit;**if ye have any communion with me in the graces of the Spirit, and *stand fast in one spirit,*[Philippians 1:27](/kjv/philippians/1/27), and would show that you do persevere in *the same Spirit,*[1 Corinthians 12:4](/kjv/1-corinthians/12/4), which acts in all the members of the mystical body of Christ, that do in him their Head partake of it. **If any bowels and mercies;**if ye are duly affected with any real sympathy and commiseration towards me in my bonds for Christ, such inward affections as were moving in him towards them; [Philippians 1:8](/kjv/philippians/1/8), with [Luke 1:78](/kjv/luke/1/78); [2 Corinthians 7:15](/kjv/2-corinthians/7/15); [Colossians 3:12](/kjv/colossians/3/12); the latter word emphatically expressing the sense of the metaphor in the former. 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