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[1] If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, [2] make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; [3] doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; [4] not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. [5] Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [6] who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, [7] but 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 also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; [10] that in 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] So then, my beloved, even 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 work, for his good pleasure. [14] Do all things without murmurings and questionings: [15] that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world, [16] holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain. [17] Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all: [18] and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
[19] But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy 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 care truly for your state. [21] For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. [22] But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel. [23] Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me: [24] but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly. [25] But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need; [26] since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was 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, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. [28] I have sent him therefore the more diligently, 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 joy; and hold such in honor: [30] because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
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