Philippians:2

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* If there be therefore any consolation in Christ , if any comfort of love , if any fellowship of the Spirit , if any bowels and mercies , * Fulfil ye my joy , that ye be likeminded , having the same love , being of one accord , of one mind . * Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory ; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves . * Look not every man on his own things , but every man also on the things of others . * Let this mind be in you , which was also in Christ Jesus : * Who , being in the form of God , thought it not robbery to be equal with God : * But made himself of no reputation , and took upon him the form of a servant , and was made in the likeness of men : * And being found in fashion as a man , he humbled himself , and became obedient unto death , even the death of the cross . * Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him , and given him a name which is above every name : * That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow , of things in heaven , and things in earth , and things under the earth ; * And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God the Father . * 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 . * For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure . * Do all things without murmurings and disputings : * 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 ; * 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 . * Yea , and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith , I joy , and rejoice with you all . * For the same cause also do ye joy , and rejoice with me . * 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 . * For I have no man likeminded , who will naturally care for your state . * For all seek their own , not the things which are Jesus Christ 's . * But ye know the proof of him , that , as a son with the father , he hath served with me in the gospel . * Him therefore I hope to send presently , so soon as I shall see how it will go with me . * But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly . * 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 . * For he longed after you all , and was full of heaviness , because that ye had heard that he had been sick . * 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 . * I sent him therefore the more carefully , that , when ye see him again , ye may rejoice , and that I may be the less sorrowful . * Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness ; and hold such in reputation : * 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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