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2:1  If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy,
2:2  make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
2:3  Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.
2:4  Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.
2:5  Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
2:6  who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,
2:7  but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form,
2:8  he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
2:9  Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,
2:10  so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
2:11  and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:12  Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
2:13  for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
2:14  Do all things without murmuring and arguing,
2:15  so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world.
2:16  It is by your holding fast to the word of life that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labour in vain.
2:17  But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you—
2:18  and in the same way you also must be glad and rejoice with me.
2:19  I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you.
2:20  I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
2:21  All of them are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
2:22  But Timothy’s worth you know, how like a son with a father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.
2:23  I hope therefore to send him as soon as I see how things go with me;
2:24  and I trust in the Lord that I will also come soon.
2:25  Still, I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus—my brother and co-worker and fellow-soldier, your messenger and minister to my need;
2:26  for he has been longing for all of you, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
2:27  He was indeed so ill that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.
2:28  I am the more eager to send him, therefore, in order that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.
2:29  Welcome him then in the Lord with all joy, and honour such people,
2:30  because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.