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Chapter 2 |
| 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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2 | Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be
likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. |
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Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let
each esteem other better than themselves. |
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4 | Look not every man on his
own things, but every man also on the things of others. |
| 5 | Let this mind
be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: |
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6 | Who, being in the form of
God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: |
| 7 | But made
himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made
in the likeness of men: |
| 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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Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a
name which 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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11 | And that 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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| 13 | For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good
pleasure. |
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| Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
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| 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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| 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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| 17 | Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I
joy, and rejoice with you all. |
| 18 | For the same cause also do ye
joy, and rejoice with me. |
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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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20 | For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally
care for your state. |
| 21 | For all seek their own, not the things which
are Jesus Christ's. |
| 22 | But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son
with the father, he hath served with me in 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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But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come
shortly. |
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| 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. |
| 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 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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| 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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Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in
reputation: |
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30 | Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto
death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. |
