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¹ If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any yearnings and mercies,² fulfill my joy, that you may mind the same thing—having the same love—of one soul—minding the one thing,³ nothing in rivalry or vainglory, but in humility of mind counting one another more excellent than yourselves—⁴ do not each look to your own, but each also to the things of others.⁵ For let this mind be in you that [is] also in Christ Jesus,⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not something to be seized to be equal to God,⁷ but emptied Himself, having taken the form of a servant, having been made in the likeness of men,⁸ and having been found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, having become obedient to death—even death of a cross,⁹ for this reason, also, God highly exalted Him, and gave to Him a Name that [is] above every name,¹⁰ that in the Name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth—¹¹ and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ [is] LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

¹² So that, my beloved, as you always obey, 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 who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and deliberations,¹⁵ that you may become blameless and pure children of God, unblemished in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as luminaries in the world,¹⁶ holding forth the word of life, for rejoicing to me in regard to [the] Day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor did I labor in vain;¹⁷ but if I also am poured forth on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and am glad with you all,¹⁸ because of this you also rejoice and are glad with me.¹⁹ And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, to send Timotheus to you quickly, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,²⁰ for I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for the things concerning you,²¹ for the whole seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus,²² and you know his proof, that as a child [serves] a father, he served with me in regard to the good news;²³ I indeed hope to send him, when I may see through the things concerning me—immediately;²⁴ and I trust in the LORD that I will also come quickly myself.²⁵ And I thought [it] necessary to send to you Epaphroditus—my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need,²⁶ seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because you heard that he ailed,²⁷ for he also ailed near to death, but God dealt kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.²⁸ The more eagerly, therefore, I sent him, that having seen him again you may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful;²⁹ receive him, therefore, in the LORD, with all joy, and hold such in honor,³⁰ because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded life that he might fill up your deficiency of service to me.