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Imitating Christ’s Humility

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness 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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then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.

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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 out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above 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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not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

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regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of others also.

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In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as 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, being in very naturea God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

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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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rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very natureb of a servant,
being made in human likeness.

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but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in [the] likeness of men;

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And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to 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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Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that 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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that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
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 every tongue acknowledge 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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Do Everything Without Grumbling

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed — not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence — continue to 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 works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

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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 everything without grumbling or arguing,

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Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,

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so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”c Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky

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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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as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor 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 like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

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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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So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

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

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Timothy and Epaphroditus

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you.

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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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I have no one else like him, who will show genuine concern 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 everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

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

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But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.

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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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I hope, therefore, to send him 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 am confident in the Lord that I myself will come soon.

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

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But I think it is necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, co-worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take care of my needs.

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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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For he longs for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.

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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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Indeed he was ill, and almost died. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, to spare me 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 am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety.

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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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So then, welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him,

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

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because he almost died for the work of Christ. He risked his life to make up for the help you yourselves could not give 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

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