1 - If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2 - fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,
3 - nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--
4 - each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.
5 - For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,
6 - who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God,
7 - but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,
8 - and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,
9 - wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that <FI>is<Fi> above every name,
10 - that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow--of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth--
11 - and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 - So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,
13 - for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
14 - All things do without murmurings and reasonings,
15 - that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
16 - the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;
17 - but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,
18 - because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.
19 - And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,
20 - for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,
21 - for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,
22 - and the proof of him ye know, that as a child <FI>serveth<Fi> a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;
23 - him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me--immediately;
24 - and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.
25 - And I thought <FI>it<Fi> necessary Epaphroditus--my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need--to send unto you,
26 - seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,
27 - for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.
28 - The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;
29 - receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,
30 - because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.
