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\v 1 If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,
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\v 2 make my joy full so that you are of the same mind, have the same love, are united in spirit, and have the same purpose.
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\v 3 Do nothing out of selfishness or empty conceit, but instead with humility count others better than yourself.
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\v 4 Do not look out only for your own needs, but also look out for the needs of others.
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\v 5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,
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\v 6 who existed in the form of God.
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\q2 He did not consider his equality with God
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\q3 as something to hold on to.
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\v 7 But instead he emptied himself.
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\q2 He took the form of a servant.
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\q2 He appeared in the likeness of men.
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\q He was found in appearance as a man.
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\v 8 He humbled himself and obeyed to the point of death,
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\q2 even the death of the cross.
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\v 9 Therefore also God highly exalted him,
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\q2 and gave him the name above every name.
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\v 10 So at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
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\q2 of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
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\v 11 And every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
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\q2 to the glory of God the Father.
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\v 12 So then, my beloved, even as you always obey, not only in my presence but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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\v 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
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\v 14 Do everything without complaining and arguing,
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\v 15 so that you may become blameless and honest children of God without blemish, and shine as lights in the world in the middle of a crooked and depraved generation.
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\v 16 Hold tightly to the word of life so that I may have reason to glory in the day of Christ, because then I will know that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
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\v 17 But even if my life is poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice with great joy with you all.
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\v 18 And in the same manner you also must rejoice with great joy with me.
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\v 19 But I expect in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that his report may also encourage me when I know how you are doing.
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\v 20 I have no one like Timothy who will truly care for you.
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\v 21 For they all seek their own interests, not the things of Jesus Christ.
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\v 22 But you know Timothy has proven himself, because, as a child serves his father, so he served with me in the spread of the gospel.
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\v 23 Therefore I expect to send him as soon as I see how things will go with me.
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\v 24 But I am confident in the Lord that I myself will come soon, also.
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\v 25 I think it necessary to send Epaphroditus back to you. He is my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need.
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\v 26 Because you heard he was sick, he was deeply distressed and longed to be with you all.
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\v 27 For indeed he was so sick he almost died, but God had mercy on him. And not on him only, but also on me that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
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\v 28 Therefore I am eager to send him so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I will not worry so much.
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\v 29 Welcome Epaphroditus in the Lord with all joy and honor him as people like him deserve,
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\v 30 because he almost died doing the work of Christ, as he risked his life to serve me and supply my needs, in place of you who could not do it.
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