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[doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting one another better than himself;

each of you not looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being made in the likeness of men;

So then, my beloved, even as you 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;

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

But you know the proof of him, that, as a child [to] a father, he served as a slave with me in furtherance of the gospel.

but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and co-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;

for indeed he was sick near to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.

But on the contrary, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and regard them as crap, that I may gain Christ,

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if also I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I don't count myself to have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; wherein you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

And you yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only;

Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

[even] the mystery which has been hid for ages and generations: but now it has been manifested to his saints,