      | ¶ | 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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