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in love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and
compassions, [2:2] fulfil my joy, that you have the same mind, having
the same love, sympathizing with each other, having one opinion.
[2:3]Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each
esteem others better than himself, [2:4]and let each consider not his
own interests, but also those of others. [2:5]Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus, [2:6]who being in the form of God
thought it not a robbery to be equal with God; [2:7]but he abased
himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of
man, [2:8]and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient even till death, and the death of the cross.
[2:9]Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which
is above every name, [2:10]that at the name of Jesus every knee shall
bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth,
[2:11]and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.

6 [2:12]And so, my beloved, as you always obeyed, not in my presence
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with
fear and trembling; [2:13]for God works in you both to will and to work
of his good pleasure. [2:14]Do all things without complainings and
disputations, [2:15]that you may be blameless and sincere, children of
God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in
which you shine as luminaries in the world, [2:16]holding fast the word
of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in
vain, nor labor in vain. [2:17]But if I am even poured out as a
libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and
congratulate you all; [2:18]do you also rejoice with the same joy and
congratulate me.

7 [2:19]But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly,
that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs. [2:20]For I have no
one like minded who really will care for your interests; [2:21]for all
seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. [2:22]But you know his
tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the
gospel. [2:23]Him therefore I hope to send to you as soon as I know how
it will be with me; [2:24]and I hope in the Lord that I also myself
shall come shortly.

8 [2:25]But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, the
brother and my fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, but y