Chiasm
Philippians 02:3–18
Philippians 02:3–183 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
- A' 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
- A 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
- A' 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- A 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.
- B 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
- A' 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
- A 15a That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
- A' 16b that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
- A 17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
- A' 18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
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