2:1 If [there is] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels
and mercies,
2:2 Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same
love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.
2:3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vain glory; but in
lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on
the things of others.
2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God:
2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.
2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a
name which is above every name:
2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
[things] in heaven, and [things] on earth, and [things] under
the earth;
2:11 And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
[is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:12 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.
2:13 For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of
[his] good pleasure.
2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
2:15 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;
2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the
day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in
vain.
2:17 And if I am even offered upon the sacrifice and service of
your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
2:19 But I trust 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 like-minded, who will naturally care for
your state.
2:21 For all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the
father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall
see how it will go with me.
2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come
shortly.
2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my
brother, and companion in labor, and fellow-soldier, but your
messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness,
because ye had heard that he was sick.
2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh to death: but God had mercy on
him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have
sorrow upon sorrow.
2:28 I sent him therefore the more speedily, that, when ye see
him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less
sorrowful.
2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and
hold such in reputation:
2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh to death, not
regarding his life, to supply the want of your service towards
me.
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