1 Therefore, if [there is] any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any inner affections and compassions, VP
2 fulfill my joy so that you⁺ may be of the same mind, having the same love, united in soul, minding the one thing, VP
3 nothing according to self-interest or according to vain conceit, but in humility esteeming one another surpassing yourselves, VP
4 each looking at not the things of yourselves, but each also the things of others. VP
5 Let this mind be in you⁺ that [was] also in Christ Jesus: VP
6 Who, existing in [the] form of God, did not consider to be equal with God something to be grasped, VP
7 but emptied Himself, having taken [the] form of a servant, having been made in [the] likeness of men. VP
8 And having been found in appearance as a man He humbled Himself, having become obedient unto death, even [the] death of [the] cross. VP
9 Therefore God also highly exalted Him and granted to Him the name above every name, VP
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in the heavens and on earth and under the earth, VP
11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to [the] glory of God [the] Father. VP
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as always you⁺ obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. VP
13 For God is the [One] working in you⁺ both to will and to work on behalf of [His] good pleasure. VP
14 Do all things without grumblings and disputings, VP
15 so that you⁺ may be blameless and innocent, children of God unblemished in [the] midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you⁺ shine as lights in [the] world, VP
16 holding forth [the] word of life for a boast to me in [the] day of Christ that I did not run in vain, nor did I toil in vain. VP
17 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your⁺ faith, I rejoice and rejoice with you⁺ all. VP
18 And likewise you⁺ also be glad and rejoice with me. VP
19 But I hope in [the] Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you⁺ soon, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you⁺. VP
20 For I have no one like-minded, who genuinely will care for the things concerning you⁺. VP
21 For those all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Jesus Christ. VP
22 But you⁺ know his proven worth, that as a child [with] a father he served with me in the gospel. VP
23 Him indeed therefore I hope to send when I shall have seen the things concerning me—immediately. VP
24 And I am persuaded in [the] Lord that I myself will also come soon. VP
25 Now I thought [it] necessary to send to you⁺ Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your⁺ messenger and minister of my need, VP
26 since he was longing for you⁺ all and being deeply distressed because you⁺ heard that he was sick. VP
27 And indeed he was sick, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. VP
28 All the more eagerly, therefore, I sent him, so that having seen him again you⁺ may rejoice, and I may be less anxious. VP
29 Therefore receive him in [the] Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor, VP
30 because on account of the work of Christ he drew near unto death, having disregarded [his] life so that he might fill up your⁺ deficiency of service toward me. VP