Philippians:2

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* Then if there is any comfort in Christ , if any consolation of love , if any fellowship of the Spirit , if any tendernesses and compassions , * fulfill my joy , that you think the same , having the same love , one in soul , minding the one thing , * doing nothing according to party spirit or self-glory , but in humility , esteeming one another to surpass themselves ; * each not looking at their own things , but each also at the things of others . * For let this mind be in you which also was in Christ Jesus , * who subsisting in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God , * but emptied Himself , taking the form of a slave , having become in the likeness of men * and being found in fashion as a man , He humbled Himself , having become obedient until death , even the death of a cross . * Because of this also God highly exalted Him and gave Him a name above every name , * that at the name of Jesus "every knee should bow ," of heavenly ones , and earthly ones , and ones under the earth , * and "every tongue should confess " that Jesus Christ is "Lord ," to the glory of God the Father . Isaiah . strkjv @45:23 * So , then , my beloved , even as you always obeyed , not as in my presence only , but now much rather in my absence , cultivate your salvation with fear and trembling , * for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for the sake of His good pleasure . * Do all things without murmurings and disputings , * that you may be blameless and harmless , children of God , without fault in the midst of a crooked generation , even having been perverted , among whom you shine as luminaries in the world , * holding up a word of life , for a boast to me in the day of Christ , that I ran not in vain , nor labored in vain . * But if indeed I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith , I rejoice ; yea , I rejoice with you all . * And you also rejoice in the same and rejoice with me . * But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon , that I may also be of good cheer , knowing the things about you . * For I have no one like-minded , who genuinely will care for the things about you . * For all seek their own things , not the things of Christ Jesus . * But you know the proof of him , that as a child to a father , he served with me for the gospel . * Then I hope to send this one at once , whenever I shall see the things about me . * But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come soon . * But I thought it needful to send to you Epaphroditus , my brother and fellow-worker , and my fellow soldier , and your messenger and minister of my need , * since he was longing for you all and has been troubled because you heard that he was sick . * For indeed he was sick , coming near to death ; but God had mercy on him , and not only on him , but also me , lest I should have grief on grief . * Therefore , I sent him more eagerly , that seeing him again you may rejoice , and I may be less grieved . * Then receive him in the Lord with all joy and hold such in honor , * that through the work of Christ he drew near to death , having disregarded his life , that he may fill up your lack of service toward me .

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