Philippians:2

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* If then [there be ] any comfort in Christ , if any consolation of love , if any fellowship of [the ] Spirit , if any bowels and compassions , * fulfil my joy , that ye may think the same thing , having the same love , joined in soul , thinking one thing ; * [let ] nothing [be ] in the spirit of strife or vain glory , but , in lowliness of mind , each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves ; * regarding not each his own [qualities ], but each those of others also . * For let this mind be in you which [was ] also in Christ Jesus ; * who , subsisting in the form of God , did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God ; * but emptied himself , taking a bondman 's form , taking his place in [the ] likeness of men ; * and having been found in figure as a man , humbled himself , becoming obedient even unto death , and [that the ] death of [the ] cross . * Wherefore also God highly exalted him , and granted him a name , that which is above every name , * that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow , of heavenly and earthly and infernal [beings ], * and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ [is ] Lord to God [the ] Father 's glory . * So that , my beloved , even as ye have always obeyed , not as in my presence only , but now much rather in my absence , work out your own salvation with fear and trembling , * for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to [his ] good pleasure . * Do all things without murmurings and reasonings , * that ye may be harmless and simple , irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation ; among whom ye appear as lights in [the ] world , * holding forth [the ] word of life , so as to be a boast for me in Christ 's day , that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain . * But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith , I rejoice , and rejoice in common with you all . * In like manner do ye also rejoice , and rejoice with me . * But I hope in [the ] Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly , that I also may be refreshed , knowing how ye get on . * For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on . * For all seek their own things , not the things of Jesus Christ . * But ye know the proof of him , that , as a child a father , he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings . * Him therefore I hope to send immediately , as soon as I shall see how it goes with me : * but I trust in [the ] Lord that I myself also shall soon come ; * but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus , my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier , but your messenger and minister to my need , * since he had a longing desire after you all , and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick ; * for he was also sick close to death , but God had mercy on him , and not indeed on him alone , but also on me , that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow . * I have sent him therefore the more diligently , that seeing him ye might again rejoice , and that I might be the less sorrowful . * Receive him therefore in [the ] Lord with all joy , and hold such in honour ; * because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death , venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me .

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