| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Do all things without grumbling or disputing; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me; |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need; |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold men like him in high regard; |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was deficient in your service to me. |
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