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[1]If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
[2]Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
[3]Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; 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 unto 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 in 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 which 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 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 also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
[19]But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
[20]For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
[21]For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
[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 labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
[26]For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
[27]For indeed he was sick nigh unto 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 carefully, 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 unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
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