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- If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
- then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.
- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
- Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
- Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
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- Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
- but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
- And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!
- Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
- that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
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- and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
- for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
- Do everything without complaining or arguing,
- so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe
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- as you hold out the word of life--in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.
- But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
- So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
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