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  10 Commandments in Philippians

 The Letter Paul wrote to The Philippian Church also contains a commentary on The 10 Commandments. As Paul so often does, the 10 Commandments are not listed but are each used as a pattern to outline this letter.


1 and 2: Paul opens his letter using The First 2 Commandments to write about GOD and The LORD JESUS.

Philippians 1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

 This is the standard opening in Paul’s letters and they all relate the First Two Commandments as the first and most important concepts in Christianity. The Father and The Son are One and they have a relationship with each member of The Church.

Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Here we see JESUS is The Form (image) and Equal With GOD (likeness), as GOD created man in The Beginning in Genesis 1:26.


3: Using The NAME of JESUS correctly

Philippians 2:9–11 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.


4: The Work and Rest we have in GOD

Philippians 2:12–13 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. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.


5: Honoring The Father and The Church

Philippians 2:15–16 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Philippians 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Philippians 2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.