Philippians 2

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1 So, if [there is] any consolation in Christ, if [there is] any comfort of love, if [there is] any fellowship of the Spirit, if [there is] any bowels and mercies,
2 Fulfil ye my joy, the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
3 nothing [do not] through selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
4 Not currently [only] every concern, but the interests of others.
5 Your attitude should be the same, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 He was 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 human likeness as a man;
8 he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name above every name,
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
eleven and every tongue 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, with fear and trembling your own salvation,
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 doubt,
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
16 Holding forth the word of life, to rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
17 But if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
19 I hope in the Lord Jesus soon to send Timothy to you, so that I learned of your circumstances, cheered.
20 For I have no one like minded, who have been so genuinely cares about you,
21 For all seek their own, not that [anything] to Jesus Christ.
22 But ye know the proof, because he, as the son of his father, he served with me in the gospel.
23 So I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see what will happen to me.
24 I am confident in the Lord that I myself will come to you.
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, brother and fellow worker and fellow my, and your messenger and minister to my need,
26 because he was longing for you all, and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had the disease.
27 For he was sick to 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 soon sent him to you to see him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful.
29 Receive him in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in reputation:
thirty 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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