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1 - If [there is] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2 - Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.

3 - [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vain glory; 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 to 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] 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 - 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 who 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 labored in vain.

17 - And if I am even 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 Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

20 - For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state.

21 - For all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

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 labor, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

26 - For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.

27 - For indeed he was sick nigh to 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 speedily, 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 to death, not regarding his life, to supply the want of your service towards me.