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Be Like Christ

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

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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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make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.

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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 selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important 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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do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for 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 attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

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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, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

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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, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made 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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Being found in appearance as a man, 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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For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which 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 WILL BOW, of those who are 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 that every tongue will 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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So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your 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 is at work 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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so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear 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 the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil 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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But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy 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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You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.

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

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Timothy and Epaphroditus

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition.

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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 else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be 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 after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

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

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But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.

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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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Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things 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 I myself also will be coming shortly.

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

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But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also 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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because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

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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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For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not 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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Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.

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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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Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold men like him in high regard;

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

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because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was deficient 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

Philippians 2