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