¹If, therefore, there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any consolation from love, if there is any fellowship of the spirit, if there is any compassion and mercy, ²make my joy full, by being likeminded, having the same love, being of one mind, having your thoughts on the one thing, ³nothing being through self-interest or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind, considering each other more important than yourselves. ⁴Let everyone look not to his own interests, but also each one to the interests of others. ⁵So have this frame of mind in you, which is also in Christ Jesus, ⁶who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God to be misappropriation, ⁷yet he emptied himself, having taken on the status of a servant, having come in the appearance of men, ⁸and having been found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself, and he became obedient to the extent of death, and the death of the cross at that, ⁹which is why God has also greatly exalted him and has granted him a name above every name, ¹⁰so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in the upper-heavens and on earth and underground, ¹¹and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father. ¹²So, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, ¹³for God is the one who is active in you, both to will and to be active for his good pleasure. ¹⁴Do everything without grumblings and disputes, ¹⁵in order that you may be blameless and unspoiled, unblemished children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶presenting the word of life, to my exultation on the day of Christ, in that I did not run in vain nor did I toil in vain. ¹⁷But even if I am poured out on the offering and ministering of your faith, I rejoice and jointly rejoice with you all. ¹⁸In the same way, rejoice, yourselves too, and jointly rejoice with me. ¹⁹But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be of good courage, when I have got to know your affairs, ²⁰for I have no-one likeminded, who will sincerely care about your affairs. ²¹For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. ²²But get to know his trustworthiness, because as a child with his father he has served with me in the cause of the gospel. ²³So I hope to send him just as soon as I see to my affairs, ²⁴but I trust in the Lord that I myself will also come soon. ²⁵However, I considered it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, but your apostle, and minister of my needs, ²⁶since he was longing for you all, and he was in distress, because you had heard that he was ill, ²⁷for he did indeed fall so ill that he was near to death, but God had mercy on him, and not only him, but me also, so that I should not have grief upon grief, ²⁸so I sent him with greater earnest, so that when you saw him again, you would rejoice, and I would be somewhat relieved from sorrow. ²⁹Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour, ³⁰because for the work of Christ he came near to death, not having regarded his life, so that he could make up for the thing that was missing in your service towards me.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.10 ↔ Isaiah 45:23 ● v.11 ↔ Isaiah 45:23.