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The Letter of Paul to the PHILIPPIANS. Chapter 2.

Christian Humility and Christ's Humility

¹ IF THEN our common life in Christ yields anything to stir the heart, any loving consolation, any sharing of the Spirit, any warmth of affection or compassion, ² fill up my cup of happiness by thinking and feeling alike, with the same love for one another, the same turn of mind, and a common care for unity. ³ Rivalry and personal vanity should have no place among you, but you should humbly reckon others better than yourselves. ⁴ You must look to each other's interest and not merely to your own.

⁵ Let your bearing towards one another arise out of your life in Christ Jesus.

⁶ For the divine nature was his from the first;
yet he did not think to snatch at equality with God,
⁷ but made himself nothing, assuming the nature of a slave.

Bearing the human likeness,
⁸ revealed in human shape,
he humbled himself,
and in obedience accepted even death
- death on a cross.

⁹ Therefore God raised him to the heights
and bestowed on him the name above all names,
^{10 [ Is.45.23. ]} that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow -
in heaven, on earth, and in the depths -
¹¹ and every tongue confess, 'Jesus Christ is Lord',
to the glory of God the Father.

Shining as Lights in the World ¹² So you too, my friends, must be obedient, as always; even more, now that I am away, than when I was with you. You must work out your own salvation in fear and trembling; ¹³ for it is God who works in you, inspiring both the will and the deed, for his own chosen purpose.

¹⁴ Do all you have to do without complaint or wrangling. ¹⁵ Show yourselves guileless and above reproach, faultless children of God in a warped and crooked generation, in which you shine like stars in a dark world and proffer the word of life. ¹⁶ Thus you will be my pride on the Day of Christ, proof that I did not run my race in vain, or work in vain. ¹⁷ But if my life-blood is to crown that sacrifice which is the offering up of your faith, I am glad of it, and I share my gladness with you all. ¹⁸ Rejoice, you no less than I, and let us share our joy.

Timothy and Epaphroditus

¹⁹ I HOPE (under the Lord Jesus) to send Timothy to you soon; it will cheer me to hear news of you. ²⁰ There is no one else here who sees things as I do, and takes a genuine interest in your concerns; ²¹ they are all bent on their own ends, not on the cause of Christ Jesus. ²² But 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. ²³ Timothy, then, I hope to send as soon as ever I can see how things are going with me; ²⁴ and I am confident, under the Lord, that I shall myself be coming before long.

²⁵ I feel also I must send our brother Epaphroditus, my fellow-worker and comrade, whom you commissioned to minister to my needs. ²⁶ He has been missing all of you sadly, and has been distressed that you heard he was ill. ²⁷ (He was indeed dangerously ill, but God was merciful to him, and merciful no less to me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.) ²⁸ For this reason I am all the more eager to send him, to give you the happiness of seeing him again, and to relieve my sorrow. ²⁹ Welcome him then in the fellowship of the Lord with wholehearted delight. You should honour men like him; ³⁰ in Christ's cause he came near to death, risking his life to render me the service you could not give.

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