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1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
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If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy,
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
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make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
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who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
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but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form,
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
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Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
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so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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.
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Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
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Do all things without murmuring and arguing,
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;
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so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world.
16 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.
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It is by your holding fast to the word of life that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
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But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you—
18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
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and in the same way you also must be glad and rejoice with me.
19 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.
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I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
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I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
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All of them are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
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But Timothy's worth you know, how like a son with a father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
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I hope therefore to send him as soon as I see how things go with me;
24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
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and I trust in the Lord that I will also come soon.
25 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.
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Still, I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus—my brother and co-worker and fellow soldier, your messenger and minister to my need;
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
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for he has been longing for all of you, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
27 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.
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He was indeed so ill that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.
28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
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I am the more eager to send him, therefore, in order that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.
29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
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Welcome him then in the Lord with all joy, and honor such people,
30 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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because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.
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