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Philippians Chapter 2

¹So if there is any exhortation in the AnointedOne, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, ²fulfil my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

³Do nothing through rivalry or conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than themselves.

⁴Let each of you not only look after yourselves, but also look after others.

⁵Have this in your mind, which was also in AnointedOne Jesus, ⁶who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

⁸And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient; obedient to the point of death. Even death on a cross.

⁹So God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, ¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, ¹¹and that every tongue should confess that Jesus AnointedOne is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹²So then, my dear-ones, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

¹³For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

¹⁴Do all things without complaining and arguing, ¹⁵that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, ¹⁶holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of the AnointedOne, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

¹⁷Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

¹⁸In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

¹⁹But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

²⁰For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

²¹For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus AnointedOne.

²²But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

²³So I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

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

²⁵But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need, ²⁶since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

²⁷For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

²⁸So I have sent him the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

²⁹So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor, ³⁰because for the work of the AnointedOne he came near to death, risking his life to supply what was lacking in your service toward me.