¹ Therefore if [there is] any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

² fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same charity, unanimous, minding the one thing.

³ [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory, but in humility let each esteem others better than themselves,

⁴ [with] each one not looking to their own things, but also to the things of others.

⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,

⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, made in the likeness of men,

⁸ and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the stake.

⁹ Therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name,

¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] in earth and [things] under the earth,

¹¹ and [that] every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.

¹² Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always hearkened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own saving health with fear and trembling.

¹³ For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and doubts,

¹⁵ that ye may be blameless and innocent, children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

¹⁶ holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

¹⁷ And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

¹⁸ For the same cause ye also have joy and rejoice with me.

¹⁹ But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.

²⁰ For I have no one likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

²¹ For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

²² But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

²³ Therefore, I hope to send him presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

²⁴ But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

²⁵ Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellowsoldier, but your messenger and he that ministered to my needs.

²⁶ For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he had been sick

²⁷ For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

²⁸ I sent him, therefore, the more carefully, that when ye see him again, ye may rejoice and that I may be the less sorrowful.

²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and esteem such

³⁰ because for the work of the Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.: