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2:1 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love*, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies,

2:2 fulfill* my joy, in order that you* may be mindful of the same thing, having the same love*, fellowship in spirit*, being mindful of the one thing,

2:3 (nothing according to selfish ambition or through empty conceit, but in humility): deeming one another superior to yourselves;

2:4 each one, do* not note the things of yourselves, but each one note also the things of others.

2:5 For* let this mindset be in you*, which was also in Christ Jesus:

2:6 who, existing in the form of God, did not deem it a seizure to be equal to God,

2:7 but emptied himself, having taken the form of a bondservant, when he became in the likeness of men;

2:8 and having been found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, when he became obedient as far as death, and even death from a cross.

2:9 Hence, God also highly exalted him, and granted to him the name which is above every name;

2:10 in order that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus, those from the heavenly and earthly and subterranean places,

2:11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

2:12 So-then my beloved, just-as you* have always obeyed*, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work* out your* own salvation with fear and trembling.

2:13 For* it is God who is working in you* both to will and to work, on behalf of his delight.

2:14 Do* all things without murmurings and questionings,

2:15 in order that you* might become blameless and harmless children of God, flawless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you* appear as illuminations in the world.

2:16 Keep holding onto the word of life, *for a boast to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labored in vain.

2:17 But even if I am a drink-offering upon the sacrifice and ministry* of your* faith, I am rejoicing, and even rejoicing together with you* all.

2:18 Now you* also, rejoice* and rejoice* together with me in the same thing.


2:19 Now I am hoping in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you* shortly, in order that I may also be in good* spirits* after I knew about the things concerning you*.

2:20 For* I have no one equal in spirit*, who will be genuinely anxious about the things concerning you*.

2:21 For* they are all seeking their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

2:22 But you* know the trial of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served* together with me *for the good-news.

2:23 Therefore, I am indeed hoping to send this one promptly, as I may look away from the things concerning me,

2:24 but I have confidence in the Lord that I myself will also be coming shortly.

2:25 But I deemed it necessary to send to you* Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your* ambassador* and minister* to my need;

2:26 since he was longing-for you* all, and was disheartened because you* had heard that he was sick.

2:27 For* indeed he was sick?????? close to death. But God showed-mercy on him, now not him only, but also me, in order that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

2:28 Therefore, I sent him more diligently, in order that having seen him again, you* should rejoice and that * I may be sorrow-free.

2:29 Therefore accept* him in the Lord with all joy, and hold* those who are such as admired;

2:30 because he drew near almost as far as death, because of the work of the Christ, having disregarded his life in order that he might fill the lack in your* ministry* toward me.