If there
be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any bowels and mercies,
02 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded,
having the same love, being of one accord, of one
mind.
03 Let nothing be done through strife or
vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each
esteem other better than themselves.
04 Look not every man on his own things, but
every man also on the things of others.
05 Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus:
06 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God:
07 But made himself of no reputation, and took
upon him the form of a servant, and was made in
the likeness of men:
08 And being found in fashion as a man, he
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross.
09 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 in 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 which 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;
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16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may
rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run
in vain, neither laboured in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be 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
Timotheus 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
naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which
are Jesus Christ's.
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
labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger,
and he that ministered to my wants.
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of
heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had
been 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, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, 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
unto death, not regarding his life, to supply
your lack of service toward me.
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