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| 1. | If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions, |
| 2. | fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing; |
| 3. | let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves; |
| 4. | regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also. |
| 5. | For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus; |
| 6. | who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; |
| 7. | but emptied himself, taking a bondman`s form, taking his place in the likeness of men; |
| 8. | and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross. |
| 9. | Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name, |
| 10. | that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings, |
| 11. | and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to God the Father`s glory. |
| 12. | So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, |
| 13. | for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure. |
| 14. | Do all things without murmurings and reasonings, |
| 15. | that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world, |
| 16. | holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ`s day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain. |
| 17. | But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all. |
| 18. | In like manner do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me. |
| 19. | But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on. |
| 20. | For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on. |
| 21. | For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ. |
| 22. | But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings. |
| 23. | Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me: |
| 24. | but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall soon come; |
| 25. | but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need, |
| 26. | since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick; |
| 27. | for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. |
| 28. | I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful. |
| 29. | Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour; |
| 30. | because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me. |