| 1 | If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, |
| 2 | fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing—having the same love—of one soul—minding the one thing, |
| 3 | nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves -- |
| 4 | each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others. |
| 5 | For, let this mind be in you that [is] also in Christ Jesus, |
| 6 | who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God, |
| 7 | but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, |
| 8 | and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death—death even of a cross, |
| 9 | wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that [is] above every name, |
| 10 | that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth -- |
| 11 | and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
| 12 | So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, |
| 13 | for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure. |
| 14 | All things do without murmurings and reasonings, |
| 15 | that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world, |
| 16 | the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour; |
| 17 | but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all, |
| 18 | because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me. |
| 19 | And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you, |
| 20 | for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care, |
| 21 | for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus, |
| 22 | and the proof of him ye know, that as a child [serveth] a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news; |
| 23 | him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me—immediately; |
| 24 | and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come. |
| 25 | And I thought [it] necessary Epaphroditus—my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need—to send unto you, |
| 26 | seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed, |
| 27 | for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have. |
| 28 | The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful; |
| 29 | receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour, |
| 30 | because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me. |