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1 ) If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
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2 ) Fulfill all of you my joy, that all of you be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
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3 ) Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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4 ) Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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5 ) Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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6 ) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
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7 ) But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
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8 ) And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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9 ) Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
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10 ) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth,
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11 ) And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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12 ) Wherefore, my beloved, as all of you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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13 ) For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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14 ) Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
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15 ) That all of you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom all of you shine as lights in the world,
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16 ) Holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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17 ) Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
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18 ) For the same cause also do all of you joy, and rejoice with me.