21If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,+2fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,+3nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--+4each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.+
5For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,+6who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,+7but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,+8and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,+9wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,+10that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow--of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth--+11and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.+
12So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,+13for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.+14All things do without murmurings and reasonings,+15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,+16the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;+17but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,+18because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.+
19And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,+20for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,+21for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,+22and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;+23him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me--immediately;+24and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.+25And I thought it necessary Epaphroditus--my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need--to send unto you,+26seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,+27for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.+28The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;+29receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,+30because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.+
Young's Literal Translation
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