腓立比書 2:1-3 CUNPTS

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:1-30

JOY IN SE RV ICE EXPRESSED UNITY We here touch the weak point in the spiritual life of this church: a tendency toward dissension and separation. It is sad, as another says, that this tendency “is not least likely to be operative where there is generally diffused life and vigor” in a church, just as a state of lukewarmness may favor an outward tranquility. Paul plies his arguments against it, saying in effect, if there is any such thing as comfort drawn from our common union in Christ, any... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Philippians 2:1

CONTENTS We have here one of the most precious Views of Jesus. Paul exhorts the Church by Christ's Example. He shows the Blessedness of a Life of Faith and Humility. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Philippians 2:1-11

(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... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:1

If there be, therefore, any consolation. If you have any desire to comfort me in Christ, or for Christ's sake. (Witham) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Philippians 2:3

Esteem others better than themselves. St. Thomas Aquinas (22. q. 162. a. 3.) puts the question, how an innocent man can with truth think himself worse than the most wicked of men? He answers, that a man who has received very extraordinary gifts from God, cannot think these gifts less than what any other has received; but he may reflect that he has nothing, and is nothing of himself. And a man truly humble considers only his own sins and failings, and is persuaded that any other person would... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 2:1-4

1-4 Here are further exhortations to Christian duties; to like-mindedness and lowly-mindedness, according to the example of the Lord Jesus. Kindness is the law of Christ's kingdom, the lesson of his school, the livery of his family. Several motives to brotherly love are mentioned. If you expect or experience the benefit of God's compassions to yourselves, be compassionate one to another. It is the joy of ministers to see people like-minded. Christ came to humble us, let there not be among us a... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Philippians 2:1-99

Philippians 2 THE OPENING VERSE of chapter 2 appears to be an allusion to the supplies from the Philippians which had reached Paul by the hand of Epaphroditus. These gifts had been to him a very refreshing expression of the love and compassion that marked them, and of the true fellowship of the Spirit that existed between himself and them. As a result his heart had been filled with consolation and comfort in the midst of his afflictions. Whilst recognizing however, the immediate application of... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Philippians 2:1-4

The Need of Loving Humility. Php_2:1-4 v. 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, v. 2. fulfill ye my joy that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. v. 3. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. v. 4. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Philippians 2:1-11

(2) Christ’s Example on the Way through Humiliation to Exaltation (Philippians 2:1-11)After earnestly and eloquently entreating them to stand together in harmony (Philippians 2:1-4), he holds up to view the person of the Redeemer (Philippians 2:5-6), His state of Humiliation (Philippians 2:7-8), and His state of exaltation (Philippians 2:9-11)1If there be therefore any consolation [exhortation] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any1 bowels and mercies... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Philippians 2:1-4

Philippians A PLEA FOR UNITY Php_2:1-4 R.V.. There was much in the state of the Philippian church which filled Paul’s heart with thankfulness, and nothing which drew forth his censures, but these verses, with their extraordinary energy of pleading, seem to hint that there was some defect in the unity of heart and mind of members of the community. It did not amount to discord, but the concord was not as full as it might have been. There is another hint pointing in the same direction in the... read more