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¹ If there bee therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of loue, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels, & mercies; ² Fulfill ye my ioy, that yee be like minded, hauing the same loue, being of one accord, of one minde. ³ Let nothing bee done through strife, or vaine glory, but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme other better then themselues. ⁴ Looke not euery man on his owne things, but euery man also on the things of others. ⁵ Let this minde bee in you, which was also in Christ Iesus: ⁶ Who being in the forme of God, thought it not robbery to bee equall with God: ⁷ But made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant, and was made in the likenesse of men. ⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto death, euen the death of the Crosse. ⁹ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name which is aboue euery name: ¹⁰ That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bow, of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth: ¹¹ And that euery tongue should confesse, that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹² Wherefore, my beloued, as yee haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence onely, but now much more in my absence; worke out your owne saluation with feare, and trembling. ¹³ For it is God which worketh in you, both to will, and to doe, of his good pleasure.

¹⁴ Doe all things without murmurings, and disputings: ¹⁵ That yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse, the sonnes of God, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and peruerse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world: ¹⁶ Holding foorth the word of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I haue not runne in vaine, neither laboured in vaine. ¹⁷ Yea, and if I bee offered vpon the sacrifice and seruice of your faith, I ioy, and reioyce with you all. ¹⁸ For the same cause also doe ye ioy, and reioyce with me. ¹⁹ But I trust in the Lord Iesus, to send Timotheus shortly vnto you, that I also may bee of good comfort, when I know your state. ²⁰ For I haue no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state. ²¹ For all seeke their owne, not the things which are Iesus Christs. ²² But ye know the proofe of him, That as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me, in the Gospel. ²³ Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soone as I shall see how it wil goe with me. ²⁴ But I trust in the Lord, that I also my selfe shall come shortly. ²⁵ Yet I supposed it necessary, to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour, and fellow souldiour, but your messenger, and hee that ministred to my wants. ²⁶ For hee longed after you all, and was full of heauinesse, because that yee had heard that he had bene sicke. ²⁷ For indeed he was sicke nigh vnto death, but God had mercy on him: and not on him onely, but on mee also, lest I should haue sorow vpon sorow. ²⁸ I sent him therefore the more carefully, that when ye see him againe, ye may reioyce, and that I may bee the lesse sorrowfull. ²⁹ Receiue him therfore in the Lord with all gladnesse, and hold such in reputation: ³⁰ Because for the worke of Christ he was nigh vnto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lacke of seruice toward me.