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1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
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If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:
2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
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Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment.
3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
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Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:
4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
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Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those that are other men’s.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
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For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
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Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
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But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
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For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names:
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
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That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
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Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.
13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
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For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.
14 Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
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And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations:
15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
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That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.
16 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
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Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
17 Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
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Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all.
18 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
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And for the selfsame thing, do you also rejoice and congratulate with me.
19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you.
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And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy unto you shortly, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know the things concerning you.
20 For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
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For I have no man so of the same mind, who with sincere affection is solicitous for you.
21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
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For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know Timothy'sproven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.
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Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel.
23 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me,
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Him therefore I hope to send unto you immediately: so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24 and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.
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And I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come to you shortly.
25 I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
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But I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow labourer and fellow soldier, but your apostle: and he that hath ministered to my wants.
26 for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
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For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.
27 Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
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For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him. And not only on him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.
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Therefore, I sent him the more speedily: that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow.
29 So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men,
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Receive him therefore with all joy in the Lord: and treat with honour such as he is.
30 for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.
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Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service.
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