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title: Philippians 2
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createdAt: 2024-09-15T02:36:20.131Z
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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, **2 **Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, *being* of one accord, of one mind. **3 ***Let* nothing *be done* through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. **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: **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. **9 **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; **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. **13 **For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of *his* good pleasure.

**14 **Do all things without murmurings and disputings: **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; **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. **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.

**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. **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. **24 **But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

**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. **26 **For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. **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. **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. **29 **Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: **30 **Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.