Philippians 2
2:1If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any feelings of compassion and pities,
2:2fulfill my joy! that you should be thinking the same, having the same love, unanimous, thinking one thing;
2:3nothing according to contention or self seeking-glory; but in humility, esteeming one another superior than oneselves.
2:4Let not each watch out for the things of themselves, but each also the things of others!
2:5For let this thinking be in you which also is in Christ Jesus!
2:6who existing in the appearance of God, esteemed it not a seizure to be equal with God;
2:7but emptied himself, having taken on the appearance of a bondman, having become in the likeness of men.
2:8And in condition having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become subject unto death, even death of the cross.
2:9Therefore also God greatly exalted him, and granted to him the name above every name,
2:10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend -- heavenly, and earthly, and underground;
2:11and every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father.
2:12So that, my beloved, as at all times you obeyed, not as at my arrival only, but now much rather in my absence, with fear and trembling work out your own deliverance!
2:13For God is the one operating in you both to want and to operate for the good-pleasure.
2:14Do all things without grumblings and arguings!
2:15that you should become blameless and unmixed, children of God, without blemish, in the midst of a generation crooked and perverted, among whom you appear as luminaries in the world,
2:16giving heed to the word of life, for a boasting to me in the day of Christ, that not in vain I ran, nor in vain I tired.
2:17But even if I am offered as a libation upon the sacrifice and ministration of the belief of yours, I rejoice, and I rejoice along with all you.
2:18And likewise also you rejoice, even rejoice along with me!
2:19But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send forth Timothy quickly to you, that I also should be full of confidence, having known the things concerning you.
2:20For I have no one like-minded who genuinely shall have concern for the things concerning you,
2:21(for all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.)
2:22but the proof of him you know, that as to a father he served as a child with me in the good news.
2:23This one indeed then I hope to send forth (as whenever I look over the things concerning me) immediately.
2:24And I am persuaded in the Lord, that also myself shall come quickly.
2:25But I esteemed it important that Epaphroditus the brother and fellow-worker and my fellow-soldier, (but your apostle,) and minister of my need to send to you,
2:26since he was longing after you all, and was anxious because you heard that he was sick.
2:27For even he was sick, close to death; but God showed mercy on him; and not him only, but also me, that I should not have distress upon distress.
2:28More diligently then I sent him, that seeing him again, you should rejoice, and I should be free from sorrow.
2:29Favorably receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and such ones have in esteem!
2:30for because of the work of the Christ he approached unto death, risking his life, that he should supply your deficiency of the ministration towards me.