Chapter 2
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| 2:1 Therefore, if there is any encouragement inside of Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of Spirit, if any affections and compassions, • 2 fulfill my joy by being of the same gut-level heart thinking, having the same love, being united in soul, sharing the same soul in the same heart thinking. • 3 Do nothing according to rivalry or according to empty conceit, but in lowliness of mind esteem one another as better than yourself in full reciprocity, 4 each considering not just your own things, but also the things of each other. • 5 Let this exact same gut-level manner of thinking [d] be inside of you that was inside of Christ Jesus, • 6 who existing continuously and actively [e] inside of the form of God [that is, all here now and Personal in us], did not hold tightly to the gut assumption of being equal with God. • 7 Rather, having already willingly taken hold of the form of a slave, Himself ekenosen [f], that is, He Himself called an invisible God into visibility, becoming the same as humans. • 8 And having been found in outward appearance as a human, He humbled Himself, actively becoming hearing-under [g] all the way to death, even the death of the cross. • 9 Therefore, also, God highly exalted Him and favored Him with the name above every name, • 10 that inside of the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, every heavenly knee, every earthly knee, and every under-earthly knee and 11 every tongue should speak the same thing, that is, the Lord Jesus Christ penetrating into the glory of God the Father [h]. • 12 Therefore, my beloved reader, even as you have always submitted to what you have heard, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, accomplish your salvation to full completion in fear and trembling, • 13 for God is the present and active energeoing inside of you, both to desire and to energeo for the sake of good pleasure and satisfaction [i). • 14 Do all without grumblings and disputings, 15 that you might be without fault or impurity, but pure, as children birthed out from God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine forth as lights inside the world-cosmos, 16 holding forth the word of life, as my ground of boasting into the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor toil in vain. • 17 But if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all, 18 and likewise you also are glad and rejoice with me. 19 I hope, moreover, inside of the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you soon, that I also might be encouraged [j] by knowing how you are doing. 20 I have no one else of like soul, who will truly care for your needs. 21 All the others are seeking the things of themselves and not the things of Christ Jesus. 22 But you know Timothy’s proving, that as a child to a father, he has served together with me in the gospel. 23 Therefore, I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I have seen how things go with me. 24 More than that, I am persuaded inside the Lord that I myself also will come soon. 25 I also esteemed it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you, my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier [in faith], who was also your messenger and minister to my own need, 26 since he was longing after you all, as you were deeply distressed because you heard that he was ill. 27 Indeed, he was sick nearly to death, but God showed mercy to him, and not him alone, but also me, that I should not have sorrow. 28 Therefore, I have sent him all the more eagerly, that, having seen him again, you might rejoice, and I might be less anxious. 29 Receive him therefore inside of the Lord with all joy and hold such in honor, 30 because for the sake of the work of Christ he came near death, having exposed his soul to danger, that he might complete what is lacking in your service towards me. |
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