1 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:
2 - Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment.
3 - Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:
4 - Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those that are other men's.
5 - For 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 emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.
8 - He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.
9 - For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names:
10 - That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:
11 - And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
12 - Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.
13 - For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.
14 - And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations:
15 - That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.
16 - Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
17 - Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all.
18 - And for the selfsame thing, do you also rejoice and congratulate with me.
19 - And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy unto you shortly, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know the things concerning you.
20 - For I have no man so of the same mind, who with sincere affection is solicitous for you.
21 - For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ's.
22 - Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel.
23 - Him therefore I hope to send unto you immediately: so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24 - And I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come to you shortly.
25 - But I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow labourer and fellow soldier, but your apostle: and he that hath ministered to my wants.
26 - For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.
27 - For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him. And not only on him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 - Therefore, I sent him the more speedily: that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow.
29 - Receive him therefore with all joy in the Lord: and treat with honour such as he is.
30 - Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service.
