| 2:1
| If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love,
if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
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| 2:2
| Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of
one accord, of one mind.
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| 2:3
| Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of
mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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| 2:4
| Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things
of others.
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| 2:5
| Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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| 2:6
| Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with
God:
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| 2:7
| But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a
servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
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| 2:8
| And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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| 2:9
| Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which
is above every name:
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| 2:10
| That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under the earth;
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| 2:11
| And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.
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| 2:12
| 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.
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| 2:13
| For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good
pleasure.
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| 2:14
| Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
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| 2:15
| 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;
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| 2:16
| 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.
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| 2:17
| Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I
joy, and rejoice with you all.
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| 2:18
| For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
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| 2:19
| 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.
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| 2:20
| For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
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| 2:21
| For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
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| 2:22
| But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath
served with me in the gospel.
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| 2:23
| Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it
will go with me.
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| 2:24
| But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
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| 2:25
| 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.
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| 2:26
| For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye
had heard that he had been sick.
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| 2:27
| 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.
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| 2:28
| I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye
may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
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| 2:29
| Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in
reputation:
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| 2:30
| Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his
life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
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