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2:1  Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort in love, any sharing in the Spirit, any sympathy,
2:2  complete my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, being united, and agreeing with each other.
2:3  Don’t do anything for selfish purposes, but with humility think of others as better than yourselves.
2:4  Instead of each person watching out for their own good, watch out for what is better for others.
2:5  Adopt the attitude that was in Christ Jesus:
2:6  Though he was in the form of God, he did not consider being equal with God something to exploit.
2:7  But he emptied himself by taking the form of a slave and by becoming like human beings. When he found himself in the form of a human,
2:8  he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
2:9  Therefore, God highly honored him and gave him a name above all names,
2:10  so that at the name of Jesus everyone in heaven, on earth, and under the earth might bow
2:11  and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:12  Therefore, my loved ones, just as you always obey me, not just when I am present but now even more while I am away, carry out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
2:13  God is the one who enables you both to want and to actually live out his good purposes.
2:14  Do everything without grumbling and arguing
2:15  so that you may be blameless and pure, innocent children of God surrounded by people who are crooked and corrupt. Among these people you shine like stars in the world
2:16  because you hold on to the word of life. This will allow me to say on the day of Christ that I haven’t run for nothing or worked for nothing.
2:17  But even if I am poured out like a drink offering upon the altar of service for your faith, I am glad. I’m glad with all of you.
2:18  You should be glad about this in the same way. Be glad with me!
2:19  I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to see you soon so that I may be encouraged by hearing about you.
2:20  I have no one like him. He is a person who genuinely cares about your well-being.
2:21  All the others put their own business ahead of Jesus Christ’s business.
2:22  You know his character, how he labors with me for the gospel like a son works with his father.
2:23  So he is the one that I hope to send as soon as I find out how things turn out here for me.
2:24  I trust in the Lord that I also will visit you soon.
2:25  I think it is also necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. He is my brother, coworker, and fellow soldier; and he is your representative who serves my needs.
2:26  He misses you all, and he was upset because you heard he was sick.
2:27  In fact, he was so sick that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him—and not just on him but also on me, because his death would have caused me great sorrow.
2:28  Therefore, I am sending him immediately so that when you see him again you can be glad and I won’t worry.
2:29  So welcome him in the Lord with great joy and show great respect for people like him.
2:30  He risked his life and almost died for the work of Christ, and he did this to make up for the help you couldn’t give me.