• 1. If there bee therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of loue, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels, & mercies;
  • 2. Fulfill ye my ioy, that yee be like minded, hauing the same loue, being of one accord, of one minde.
  • 3. Let nothing bee done through strife, or vaine glory, but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme other better then themselues.
  • 4. Looke not euery man on his owne things, but euery man also on the things of others.
  • 5. Let this minde bee in you, which was also in Christ Iesus:
  • 6. Who being in the forme of God, thought it not robbery to bee equall with God:
  • 7. But made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant, and was made in the likenesse of men.
  • 8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto death, euen the death of the Crosse.
  • 9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name which is aboue euery name:
  • 10. That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bow, of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth:
  • 11. And that euery tongue should confesse, that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • 12. Wherefore, my beloued, as yee haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence onely, but now much more in my absence; worke out your owne saluation with feare, and trembling.
  • 13. For it is God which worketh in you, both to will, and to doe, of his good pleasure.
  • 14. Doe all things without murmurings, and disputings:
  • 15. That yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse, the sonnes of God, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and peruerse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world:
  • 16. Holding foorth the word of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I haue not runne in vaine, neither laboured in vaine.
  • 17. Yea, and if I bee offered vpon the sacrifice and seruice of your faith, I ioy, and reioyce with you all.
  • 18. For the same cause also doe ye ioy, and reioyce with me.
  • 19. But I trust in the Lord Iesus, to send Timotheus shortly vnto you, that I also may bee of good comfort, when I know your state.
  • 20. For I haue no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state.
  • 21. For all seeke their owne, not the things which are Iesus Christs.
  • 22. But ye know the proofe of him, That as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me, in the Gospel.
  • 23. Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soone as I shall see how it wil goe with me.
  • 24. But I trust in the Lord, that I also my selfe shall come shortly.
  • 25. Yet I supposed it necessary, to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour, and fellow souldiour, but your messenger, and hee that ministred to my wants.
  • 26. For hee longed after you all, and was full of heauinesse, because that yee had heard that he had bene sicke.
  • 27. For indeed he was sicke nigh vnto death, but God had mercy on him: and not on him onely, but on mee also, lest I should haue sorow vpon sorow.
  • 28. I sent him therefore the more carefully, that when ye see him againe, ye may reioyce, and that I may bee the lesse sorrowfull.
  • 29. Receiue him therfore in the Lord with all gladnesse, and hold such in reputation:
  • 30. Because for the worke of Christ he was nigh vnto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lacke of seruice toward me.