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2:1  So if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from love, if any fellowship in the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
2:2  make my · joy complete by · being like-minded, having the same love, united in spirit, with a single purpose.
2:3  Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
2:4  Each person should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
2:5  Your attitude toward one another should be the same as that of Christ Jesus,
2:6  who, although he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
2:7  but emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of man. And being found in appearance as a man
2:8  he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross!
2:9  Therefore · · God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
2:10  so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven, and on earth and under the earth,
2:11  and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:12  So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in · my presence but even more now in · my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, ·
2:13  for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work on behalf of his good pleasure.
2:14  Do all things without grumbling or arguing,
2:15  so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the universe,
2:16  holding fast the word of life, so that I may have reason to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
2:17  But even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
2:18  Likewise · you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
2:19  I hope · in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by news · about you.
2:20  For I have no one else of like mind who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
2:21  For they all look out for their own interests, not for those of Jesus Christ.
2:22  · But you know Timothy’s proven character, how as a child with his father he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel.
2:23  Therefore I hope to send him just as soon as I see how things will turn out for me;
2:24  and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming soon.
2:25  In the meantime I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, · my brother, · fellow worker, and fellow soldier, as well as your messenger and minister to my need,
2:26  because he has been longing for all of you and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
2:27  Indeed he was ill; he almost died. But · God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me as well, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.
2:28  Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may no longer be anxious.
2:29  Therefore welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and hold · such men in honor,
2:30  because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for the help · you were not able to give me.