1If then our common life in Christ yields anything to stir the heart, any consolation of love, any participation in the Spirit, any warmth of affection or compassion,
2fill up my cup of happiness by thinking and feeling alike, with the same love for one another and a common attitude of mind.
3Leave no room for selfish ambition and vanity, but humbly reckon others better than yourselves.
4Look to each other's interests and not merely to your own.
5Take to heart among yourselves what you find in Christ Jesus:
6“He was in the form of God; yet he laid no claim to equality with God,
7but made himself nothing, assuming the form of a slave. Bearing the human likeness,
8sharing the human lot, he humbled himself, and was obedient, even to the point of death, death on a cross!
9Therefore God raised him to the heights and bestowed on him the name above all names,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow -- in heaven, on earth, and in the depths --
11and every tongue acclaim, ‘Jesus Christ is Lord,’ to the glory of God the Father.”
12So you too, my friends, must be obedient, as always; even more, now that I am absent, than when I was with you. You must work out your own salvation in fear and trembling;
13for it is God who works in you, inspiring both the will and the deed, for his own chosen purpose.
14Do everything without grumbling or argument.
15Show yourselves innocent and above reproach, faultless children of God in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in a dark world
16and proffer the word of life. Then you will be my pride on the day of Christ, proof that I did not run my race in vain or labour in vain.
17But if my life-blood is to be poured out to complete the sacrifice and offering up of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
18You too must rejoice and share your joy with me.
Paul's plans
19I HOPE, in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you soon; it will cheer me up to have news of you.
20I have no one else here like him, who has a genuine concern for your affairs;
21they are all bent on their own interests, not on those of Christ Jesus.
22But Timothy's record is known to you: you know that he has been at my side in the service of the gospel like a son working under his father.
23So he is the one I mean to send as soon as I see how things go with me;
24and I am confident, in the Lord, that I shall be coming myself before long.
25I have decided I must also send our brother Epaphroditus, my fellow-worker and comrade, whom you commissioned to attend to my needs.
26He has been missing you all, and was upset because you heard he was ill.
27Indeed he was dangerously ill, but God was merciful to him; and not only to him but to me, to spare me one sorrow on top of another.
28For this reason I am all the more eager to send him and give you the happiness of seeing him again; that will relieve my anxiety as well.
29Welcome him then in the fellowship of the Lord with wholehearted delight. You should honour people like him;
30in Christ's cause he came near to death, risking his life to render me the service you could not give.
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