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¹ If there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies; Fulfil ye my joy,² that ye think the same thing, having the same love, being of one soul, of one mind.³ Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind, esteem each the others better than themselves.⁴ Look not every one at his own things, but every one also at 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 Yet emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.⁹ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above every name,¹⁰ That at the name of Jesus every knee might bow, of those in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth:¹¹ And every tongue might confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.

¹² Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.¹³ For it is God that worketh in you according to his good pleasure, both to will and to do.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:¹⁵ That ye may be blameless and simple, the sons of God, unrebukable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,¹⁶ Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.¹⁷ Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.¹⁸ For the same cause joy ye likewise, and rejoice with me.¹⁹ Now I trust in the Lord Jesus, to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged, when I know your state.²⁰ For I have none like-minded, who will naturally care for what concerneth you.²¹ For all seek their own, not the things of Christ.²² But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, he hath served with me in the gospel.²³ Him therefore I hope to send, as soon as ever I know how it will go with me.²⁴ But I trust in the Lord, that I also myself shall come shortly.²⁵ Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my need.²⁶ For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.²⁷ He was indeed sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.²⁸ I have sent him therefore the more willingly, that ye seeing him again may rejoice, and that I also may be the less sorrowful.²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and honour such.³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, to supply your deficiency of service toward me.