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| 2:1 |
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
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| 2:2 |
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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| 2:3 |
Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.
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| 2:4 |
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
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| 2:5 |
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
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| 2:6 |
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
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| 2:7 |
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
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| 2:8 |
And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.
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| 2:9 |
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,
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| 2:10 |
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
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| 2:11 |
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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| 2:12 |
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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| 2:13 |
for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
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| 2:14 |
Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
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| 2:15 |
that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
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| 2:16 |
holding fast 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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| 2:17 |
Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
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| 2:18 |
Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
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| 2:19 |
I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you.
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| 2:20 |
I have no one like him, who will be genuinely anxious for your welfare.
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| 2:21 |
They all look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
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| 2:22 |
But Timothy's worth you know, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.
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| 2:23 |
I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me;
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| 2:24 |
and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself shall come also.
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| 2:25 |
I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphrodi'tus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
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| 2:26 |
for he has been longing for you all, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
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| 2:27 |
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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| 2:28 |
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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| 2:29 |
So receive him in the Lord with all joy;and honor such men,
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| 2:30 |
for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete your service to me.
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