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- Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
- make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
- Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;
- do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
- Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
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- who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
- but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
- Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
- For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
- so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
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- and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;
- for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
- Do all things without grumbling or disputing;
- so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
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- holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.
- But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
- You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
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