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# Philippians 2

Philippians 2 is chapter 2 of 4 in the Letter to the Philippians. Here are all 30 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He recommends them to unity and humility, and to work out their salvation with fear and trembling.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Philippians 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, any solace of charity, any fellowship of the Spirit, any feelings of commiseration:
2. complete my joy by having the same understanding, holding to the same charity, being of one mind, with the same sentiment.
3. Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself.
4. Let each of you not consider anything to be your own, but rather to belong to others.
5. For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus:
6. who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized.
7. Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man.
8. He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross.
9. Because of this, God has also exalted him and has given him a name which is above every name,
10. so that, at the name of Jesus, every knee would bend, of those in heaven, of those on earth, and of those in hell,
11. and so that every tongue would confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
12. And so, my most beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but even more so now in my absence: work toward your salvation with fear and trembling.
13. For it is God who works in you, both so as to choose, and so as to act, in accord with his good will.
14. And do everything without murmuring or hesitation.
15. So may you be without blame, simple sons of God, without reproof, in the midst of a depraved and perverse nation, among whom you shine like lights in the world,
16. holding to the Word of Life, until my glory in the day of Christ. For I have not run in vain, nor have I labored in vain.
17. Moreover, if I am to be immolated because of the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and give thanks with all of you.
18. And over this same thing, you also should rejoice and give thanks, together with me.
19. Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, in order that I may be encouraged, when I know the things concerning you.
20. For I have no one else with such an agreeable mind, who, with sincere affection, is solicitous for you.
21. For they all seek the things that are of themselves, not the things that are of Jesus Christ.
22. So know this evidence of him: that like a son with a father, so has he served with me in the Gospel.
23. Therefore, I hope to send him to you immediately, as soon as I see what will happen concerning me.
24. But I trust in the Lord that I myself will also return to you soon.
25. Now I have considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and co-worker, and fellow soldier, and an attendant to my needs, but your Apostle.
26. For certainly, he has desired all of you, and he was saddened because you had heard that he was sick.
27. For he was sick, even unto death, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but truly on myself also, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28. Therefore, I sent him more readily, in order that, by seeing him again, you may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow.
29. And so, receive him with every joy in the Lord, and treat all those like him with honor.
30. For he was brought close even to death, for the sake of the work of Christ, handing over his own life, so that he might fulfill what was lacking from you concerning my service.

## Philippians 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Si qua ergo consolatio in Christo, si quod solatium caritatis, si qua societas spiritus, si qua viscera miserationis:
2. implete gaudium meum ut idem sapiatis, eamdem caritatem habentes, unanimes, idipsum sentientes,
3. nihil per contentionem, neque per inanem gloriam: sed in humilitate superiores sibi invicem arbitrantes,
4. non quæ sua sunt singuli considerantes, sed ea quæ aliorum.
5. Hoc enim sentite in vobis, quod et in Christo Jesu:
6. qui cum in forma Dei esset, non rapinam arbitratus est esse se æqualem Deo:
7. sed semetipsum exinanivit, formam servi accipiens, in similitudinem hominum factus, et habitu inventus ut homo.
8. Humiliavit semetipsum factus obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.
9. Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum, et donavit illi nomen, quod est super omne nomen:
10. ut in nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur cælestium, terrestrium et infernorum,
11. et omnis lingua confiteatur, quia Dominus Jesus Christus in gloria est Dei Patris.
12. Itaque carissimi mei (sicut semper obedistis), non ut in præsentia mei tantum, sed multo magis nunc in absentia mea, cum metu et tremore vestram salutem operamini.
13. Deus est enim, qui operatur in vobis et velle, et perficere pro bona voluntate.
14. Omnia autem facite sine murmurationibus et hæsitationibus:
15. ut sitis sine querela, et simplices filii Dei, sine reprehensione in medio nationis pravæ et perversæ: inter quos lucetis sicut luminaria in mundo,
16. verbum vitæ continentes ad gloriam meam in die Christi, quia non in vacuum cucurri, neque in vacuum laboravi.
17. Sed et si immolor supra sacrificium, et obsequium fidei vestræ, gaudeo, et congratulor omnibus vobis.
18. Idipsum autem et vos gaudete, et congratulamini mihi.
19. Spero autem in Domino Jesu, Timotheum me cito mittere ad vos: ut et ego bono animo sim, cognitis quæ circa vos sunt.
20. Neminem enim habeo tam unanimem, qui sincera affectione pro vobis sollicitus sit.
21. Omnes enim quæ sua sunt quærunt, non quæ sunt Jesu Christi.
22. Experimentum autem ejus cognoscite, quia sicut patri filius, mecum servivit in Evangelio.
23. Hunc igitur spero me mittere ad vos, mox ut videro quæ circa me sunt.
24. Confido autem in Domino quoniam et ipse veniam ad vos cito.
25. Necessarium autem existimavi Epaphroditum fratrem, et cooperatorem, et commilitonem meum, vestrum autem apostolum, et ministrum necessitatis meæ, mittere ad vos:
26. quoniam quidem omnes vos desiderabat: et mœstus erat, propterea quod audieratis illum infirmatum.
27. Nam et infirmatus est usque ad mortem: sed Deus misertus est ejus: non solum autem ejus, verum etiam et mei, ne tristitiam super tristitiam haberem.
28. Festinantius ergo misi illum, ut viso eo iterum gaudeatis, et ego sine tristitia sim.
29. Excipite itaque illum cum omni gaudio in Domino, et ejusmodi cum honore habetote;
30. quoniam propter opus Christi usque ad mortem accessit, tradens animam suam ut impleret id quod ex vobis deerat erga meum obsequium.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2842: "And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, as We Forgive Those Who Trespass AGAINST US" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2635: Prayer of Intercession ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 461: The Son of God Became Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 520: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1694: Life in Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 449: Lord ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1850: The Definition of Sin ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2641: Prayer of Praise ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 472: The Son of God Became Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 705: God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 713: God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 876: Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 602: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1224: Baptism in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 612: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 908: Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 434: Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2812: "Hallowed be Thy Name" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 635: Christ Descended Into Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 201: I Believe in God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 633: Christ Descended Into Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1949: God's Salvation: Law and Grace ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 308: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1243: How is the Sacrament of Baptism Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Humility is truth.” — St. Teresa of Ávila, The Interior Castle, I.2, 1577 (On this theme: verse 3)
- “He took what is ours to give us what is His.” — St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation, 8, c. 318 (On this theme: verse 7)
- “Let us hold on to the words, the life, the teaching and the holy Gospel of Him who humbled Himself to ask His Father for us.” — St. Francis of Assisi, Earlier Rule, ch. 22, 1221 (On this theme: verse 8)
- “He who created you without you will not save you without you.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 169, c. 416 (On this theme: verse 12)
- “Pray as if everything depended on God; work as if everything depended on you.” — St. Ignatius of Loyola, popular saying, source unconfirmed (Attributed: verse 12)
- “Give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, X.29, c. 400 (On this theme: verse 13)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 7: “Emptied himself” … exinanivit, made himself as of no account.
- Verse 12: “With fear” … This is against the false faith, and presumptuous security of modern sectaries.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Nov 3, 2026: Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Philippians 2:5-11
- Wed, Nov 4, 2026: St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop — First Reading, Philippians 2:12-18
- Sun, Mar 21, 2027: Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion — Second Reading, Philippians 2:6-11; Verse before the Gospel, Philippians 2:8-9
- Fri, Mar 26, 2027: Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion — Verse before the Gospel, Philippians 2:8-9

12 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).