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¹ If [there is] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,² Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.³ [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.⁴ Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:⁶ Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:⁷ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.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] on 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.

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 who worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings: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 labored in vain.¹⁷ And if I am even offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.¹⁸ For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.¹⁹ But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.²⁰ For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state.²¹ For all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.²² But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.²³ Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.²⁴ But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.²⁵ Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.²⁶ For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.²⁷ For indeed he was sick nigh to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.²⁸ I sent him therefore the more speedily, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he was nigh to death, not regarding his life, to supply the want of your service towards me.