PhilippiansChapter 2

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¹So, does being in Christ encourage you? Does his love comfort you? Do you share in the Spirit together? Do you have any tender love and kindness? ²If so, then make my joy full. Think the same way. Have the same love. Be one in spirit and in purpose. ³Don't do anything just to get ahead or because you are proud. Be humble. Think of others as more important than yourselves. ⁴Each of you should not just look out for yourself. You should look out for others too. ⁵You should think the same way Christ Jesus thought. ⁶He was in the form of God. But he did not think being equal with God was something to grab for himself. ⁷Instead, he emptied himself. He took the form of a servant. He was made to be like a human. ⁸He looked like a man. And he made himself humble. He obeyed all the way to death. He even died on a cross! ⁹So God lifted him up to the highest place. God gave him the name that is above every name. ¹⁰So at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. Everyone in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bow. ¹¹And every tongue should say that Jesus Christ is Lord. This brings glory to God the Father. ¹²So, my dear friends, you have always obeyed. You obeyed when I was with you. Now that I am away, obey even more. Keep working out your salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³For God is the one working in you. He helps you want to do what pleases him. And he helps you do it, for his good purpose. ¹⁴Do everything without complaining or arguing. ¹⁵Then you will be pure and without blame. You will be God's children with no fault. You live among people who are crooked and twisted. Among them you shine like lights in the world. ¹⁶You shine as you hold out the word of life. Then I can be proud on the day Christ comes. I will know that I did not run my race or work for nothing. ¹⁷Your faith is like a sacrifice and service to God. My life may be poured out like a drink offering on top of it. Even so, I am glad. I am full of joy with all of you. ¹⁸So you should be glad too. Be full of joy with me. ¹⁹I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon. Then I will be cheered up too when I hear how you are doing. ²⁰I have no one else like him. He truly cares about what you need. ²¹All the others look out for themselves. They don't care about what matters to Jesus Christ. ²²But you know Timothy has proved himself. He has worked with me like a son with his father. Together we have spread the good news. ²³So I hope to send him to you as soon as I see how things go for me. ²⁴And I trust the Lord that I will come soon myself. ²⁵But I thought I should send Epaphroditus back to you. He is my brother. He works with me and fights beside me like a soldier. He is also the messenger you sent to take care of my needs. ²⁶He has been missing all of you. He is upset because you heard he was sick. ²⁷He really was sick, and he almost died. But God had mercy on him. God also had mercy on me. He kept me from having one sorrow on top of another. ²⁸So I am even more eager to send him. When you see him again, you can be glad. And I will worry less. ²⁹Welcome him in the Lord with great joy. Honor people like him. ³⁰Do this because he almost died doing the work of Christ. He risked his life to give me the help you could not give.