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 <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1">Christian Humility</div><div class="m"> 1If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love,&#160; # 2:1 Rm 5:8; 15:30; 2Th 2:16; 1Jn 3:16; 4:9&#8211;10,16 if any fellowship with the Spirit,&#160; # 2:1 1Co 12:13; 2Co 13:13; Eph 4:3 if any affection and mercy,&#160; # 2:1 Col 3:12 2make my joy complete by thinking the same way,&#160; # 2:2 Rm 12:16; 15:5; 2Co 13:11; Php 4:2 having the same love,&#160; # 2:2 2Th 1:3; 1Jn 3:16 united in spirit, intent on one&#160; # 2:2 Jn 11:52 purpose. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition&#160; # 2:3 Rm 2:8 or conceit,&#160; # 2:3 Gl 5:26 but in humility&#160; # 2:3 Col 3:12 consider others as more important&#160; # 2:3 Rm 13:1; Php 3:8; 4:7; 1Pt 2:13 than yourselves. 4Everyone should look not to his own interests,&#160; # 2:4 Rm 15:1 but rather to the interests of others.&#160; # 2:4 Lv 19:18; Mk 10:45; 12:31; 1Co 10:24; 13:5; Php 2:21</div><div class="s1">Christ&#8217;s Humility and Exaltation</div><div class="m"> 5Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,</div><div class="qc"> 6who, existing in&#160;the&#160;form of&#160;God,</div><div class="qc">did not consider equality with&#160;God&#160; # 2:6 Is 9:6; Jn 1:1,14; 20:28; Rm 9:5; Col 1:15&#8211;16; Ti 2:13; Heb 1:2&#8211;13; 2Pt 1:1; 1Jn 4:14&#8211;15</div><div class="qc">as something to&#160;be&#160;exploited.&#160; # 2:6 Or to be grasped, or to be held on to</div><div class="qc"> 7Instead he emptied&#160;himself&#160; # 2:7 Mk 9:12; 2Co 8:9; 13:4</div><div class="qc">by assuming the&#160;form of&#160;a&#160;servant,&#160; # 2:7 Is 42:1; 53:12; Mt 20:28; Mk 10:45</div><div class="qc">taking on the&#160;likeness of&#160;humanity.&#160; # 2:7 Jn 1:14; Rm 8:3; Gl 4:4; 1Tm 2:5; Heb 2:17</div><div class="qc">And when he had come as&#160;a&#160;man,</div><div class="qc"> 8he humbled himself by&#160;becoming&#160;obedient</div><div class="qc">to the point of&#160;death&#160;&#8212;</div><div class="qc">even to death on&#160;a&#160;cross.&#160; # 2:8 Lk 23:26; Php 3:10</div><div class="qc"> 9For this reason God highly&#160;exalted&#160;him&#160; # 2:9 Is 52:13; 53:12; Dn 7:14; Ac 2:32&#8211;33; 5:30&#8211;31; Eph 1:20&#8211;21; Heb 2:9</div><div class="qc">and gave him the&#160;name</div><div class="qc">that is above&#160;every&#160;name,</div><div class="qc"> 10so that at the name of&#160;Jesus</div><div class="qc">every knee will&#160;bow&#160; # 2:10 Is 45:23 &#160;&#8212;</div><div class="qc">in&#160;heaven&#160; # 2:10 2Co 5:1; Eph 1:20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12; Heb 3:1; 12:22 and&#160;on&#160;earth</div><div class="qc">and under&#160;the&#160;earth&#160; # 2:10 Mt 28:18; Eph 1:10; Rv 5:13 &#160;&#8212;</div><div class="qc"> 11and every tongue&#160; # 2:11 Is 45:23; Rm 10:9; 14:11; 1Co 12:3 will&#160;confess</div><div class="qc">that Jesus&#160;Christ is&#160;Lord,</div><div class="qc">to the glory&#160; # 2:11 Lk 9:32; Jn 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 2Pt 3:18 of&#160;God the&#160;Father.</div><div class="s1">Lights in the World</div><div class="m"> 12Therefore, my dear friends,&#160; # 2:12 Phm 1 just as you have always obeyed,&#160; # 2:12 Mk 1:27; Ac 16:14,32&#8211;33; Rm 6:12 so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose. 14Do everything without grumbling&#160; # 2:14 Jn 7:12; Ac 6:1; 1Pt 4:9 and arguing,&#160; # 2:14 1Tm 2:8 15so that you may be blameless&#160; # 2:15 Lk 1:6 and pure,&#160; # 2:15 Mt 10:16; Rm 16:19 children of God who are faultless&#160; # 2:15 Jd 24 in a crooked&#160; # 2:15 Lk 3:5; Ac 2:40; 1Pt 2:18 and perverted&#160; # 2:15 Mt 17:17 generation,&#160; # 2:15 Dt 32:5 among whom you shine like stars in the world, 16by holding firm to the word&#160; # 2:16 Lk 8:21; Jn 18:32; Ac 17:11; Heb 4:12 of life. Then I can boast&#160; # 2:16 Rm 2:17; Gl 6:4; Php 1:26 in the day of Christ&#160; # 2:16 Php 1:6,15 that I didn&#8217;t run or labor for nothing. 17But even if I am poured out&#160; # 2:17 Php 1:7 as a drink offering&#160; # 2:17 Ex 25:29; Nm 28:7 on the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18In the same way you should also be glad and rejoice with me.</div><div class="s1">Timothy and Epaphroditus</div><div class="m"> 19Now I hope in the Lord Jesus&#160; # 2:19 Lk 24:3 to send Timothy&#160; # 2:19 Ac 16:1; 1Tm 1:2 to you soon so that I too may be encouraged by news about you. 20For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests; 21all seek their own interests,&#160; # 2:21 Rm 15:1; 2Tm 3:2 not those of Jesus Christ.&#160; # 2:21 1Co 10:24; Php 1:15 22But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father. 23Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things go with me. 24I am confident in the Lord that I myself will also come soon.&#160; # 2:24 Php 1:7</div><div class="p"> 25But I considered it necessary to send you Epaphroditus&#160; # 2:25 Php 4:18 &#160;#&#8212;&#160;#my brother, coworker, and fellow soldier, as well as your messenger and minister to my need&#160; # 2:25 Mt 6:8 &#160;#&#8212;&#160;# 26since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick. 27Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow. 28For this reason, I am very eager to send him so that you may rejoice again when you see him and I may be less anxious. 29Therefore, welcome him in the Lord with great joy and hold people like him in honor, 30because he came close to death for the work&#160; # 2:30 Mk 14:6; 2Co 9:8; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14&#8211;26 of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.</div>
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If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love,  if any fellowship with the Spirit,  if any affection and mercy,  make my joy complete by thinking the same way,  having the same love,  united in spirit, intent on one  purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition  or conceit,  but in humility  consider others as more important  than yourselves. Everyone should look not to his own interests,  but rather to the interests of others. 

Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,
who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God 
as something to be exploited. 
Instead he emptied himself 
by assuming the form of a servant, 
taking on the likeness of humanity. 
And when he had come as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death —
even to death on a cross. 
For this reason God highly exalted him 
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow   —
in heaven  and on earth
and under the earth   —
and every tongue  will confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory  of God the Father.

Therefore, my dear friends,  just as you have always obeyed,  so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose. Do everything without grumbling  and arguing,  so that you may be blameless  and pure,  children of God who are faultless  in a crooked  and perverted  generation,  among whom you shine like stars in the world, by holding firm to the word  of life. Then I can boast  in the day of Christ  that I didn’t run or labor for nothing. But even if I am poured out  as a drink offering  on the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. In the same way you should also be glad and rejoice with me.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus  to send Timothy  to you soon so that I too may be encouraged by news about you. For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests; all seek their own interests,  not those of Jesus Christ.  But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father. Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things go with me. I am confident in the Lord that I myself will also come soon. 
But I considered it necessary to send you Epaphroditus   #— #my brother, coworker, and fellow soldier, as well as your messenger and minister to my need   #— # since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick. Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow. For this reason, I am very eager to send him so that you may rejoice again when you see him and I may be less anxious. Therefore, welcome him in the Lord with great joy and hold people like him in honor, because he came close to death for the work  of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

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