Philippians 2 Bible study: Have this in your mind

The chapter opens with four ifs: "If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion," (2:1). Then: "make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;" (2:2) (tap joy and of one accord) "doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;" (2:3) (tap humility) "each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others." (2:4). The letter's I asks the readers to make its joy full, and goes on to say how, "by being like-minded" (2:2). These notes give 2:1-4 as the WEB has them, and say no more of "fellowship of the Spirit" (2:1) than the verse says.

Isaiah 45:23→leads toPhilippians 2:9-11

The LORD says, "Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other" (Isaiah 45:22), and "that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath" (Isaiah 45:23). Paul writes of "Christ Jesus" (Philippians 2:5), who "humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross" (Philippians 2:8): "Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:9-11). Paul doesn't name Isaiah or say "it is written", so setting the two side by side is a reading. It rests on the words the WEB gives both, every knee, bow and every tongue, and on what both speak of. Many hear 45:23 in Philippians 2:10-11, so that the bowing the LORD swore would come to him comes "at the name of Jesus", "to the glory of God the Father". Others read Philippians 2:9-11 as Paul's own words of Jesus exalted, sharing some of Isaiah's words, and read 45:23 in its own chapter, of the LORD's oath to "all the ends of the earth" (Isaiah 45:22). These notes pick neither.

συγχαίρωsynchairosay soong-KHAH-ee-ro

Strong's: "to sympathize in gladness, congratulate", and it gives the verb as "from G4862 and G5463". "I am glad and rejoice with you all." (2:17), and "In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me." (2:18): behind rejoice with is this verb, and behind glad is chairo (G5463), the verb behind rejoice in "that when you see him again, you may rejoice" (2:28) (tap glad). Philippians has this verb only in these two verses (counted in RP2018, and in every edition TAGNT compares). Favor's Luke 15 studies it and counts it in Luke.