9aTherefore God also bhas highly exalted Him and cgiven Him the name which is above every name,
10athat at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
11 and athat every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Light Bearers
12 Therefore, my beloved, aas you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, bwork out your own salvation with cfear and trembling;
13 for ait is God who works in you both to will and to do bfor His good pleasure.
14 Do all things awithout complaining and bdisputing,
15 that you may become blameless and1 harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as alights in the world,
every tongue—Compare "every knee" (Philippians 2:10). In every way He shall be acknowledged as Lord (no longer as "servant," Philippians 2:7). As none can fully do so "but by the Holy Ghost" (I Corinthians 12:3), the spirits of good men who are dead, must be the class directly meant, Philippians 2:10, "under the earth."
to the glory of God the Father—the grand end of Christ's mediatorial office and kingdom, which shall cease when this end shall have been fully realized (John 5:19-23, John 5:30; John 17:1, John 17:4-7; I Corinthians 15:24-28).
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