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2:1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,
2:2 make my joy full, that you+ are of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; 2:3 [doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting one another better than himself; 2:4 each of you+ not looking to his own things, but each of you+ also to the things of others. 2:5 Have this mind in you+, which was also in Christ Jesus: 2:6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider making full use of his equality with God, 2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being made in the likeness of men; 2:8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] to death, yes, the death of the cross. 2:9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; 2:10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [those] in heaven and [those] on earth and [those] under the earth, 2:11 and that every tongue should confess, The Lord Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father. 2:12 So then, my beloved, even as you+ 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; 2:13 for it is God who works in you+ both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and questionings; 2:15 that you+ may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you+ are seen as lights in the world, 2:16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have something of which to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain. 2:17 Yes, and if I am offered on the sacrifice and ministry of your+ faith, I joy, and rejoice with all of you+: 2:18 and in the same manner do you+ also joy, and rejoice with me. 2:19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you+, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your+ state. 2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your+ state. 2:21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. 2:22 But you+ know the proof of him, that, as a child [to] a father, he served as a slave with me in furtherance of the good news. 2:23 Therefore I hope to send him forthwith, as soon as I will see how it will go with me: 2:24 but I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly. 2:25 But I counted it necessary to send to you+ Epaphroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow-soldier, and your+ messenger and minister to my need; 2:26 since he longed after all of you+, and was very troubled, because you+ had heard that he was sick: 2:27 for indeed he was sick near to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. 2:28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you+ see him again, you+ may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor: 2:30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, hazarding his soul to supply that which was lacking in your+ ministry toward me. |
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