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Christ’s Example of Humility

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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Being One in Christ

If then [there be] any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

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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 my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

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Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

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[let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

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Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

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regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of others also.

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Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,a

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The Attitude of Christ

For let this mind be in you which [was] also in Christ Jesus;

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who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,b

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who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

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but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,c being born in the likeness of men.

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but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in [the] likeness of men;

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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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and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of [the] cross.

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Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

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Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

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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 at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal [beings],

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and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord to God [the] Father's glory.

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Lights in the World

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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Shining as Stars

So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

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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 works in you both the willing and the working according to [his] good pleasure.

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Do all things without grumbling or disputing,

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Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,

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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 ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in [the] world,

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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, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

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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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But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.

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Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

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In like manner do *ye* also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

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Timothy and Epaphroditus

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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Timothy and Epaphroditus

But I hope in [the] Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that *I* also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

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For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

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For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

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For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

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For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

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But you know Timothy’sd proven worth, how as a sone with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

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But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

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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 immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

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and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.

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but I trust in [the] Lord that I myself also shall soon come;

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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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Epaphroditus Commended

but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

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for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.

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since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

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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 he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

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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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I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that *I* might be the less sorrowful.

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So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men,

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Receive him therefore in [the] Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour;

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for he nearly diedf 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 sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

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Philippians 2

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