1. If there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any compassion and mercy,
2. then fulfill my joy and be like-minded, having the same love, being in unity with one mind.
3. Let nothing be done out of strife or conceit, but in humility let each esteem the other better than himself.
4. Let each of you look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5. Let this mind be in you all, which was also in Christ Jesus,
6. who, being in the form of God,did not consider equality with God something to be grasped.
7. But He emptied Himself,taking upon Himself the form of a servant,and was made in the likeness of men.
8. And being found in the form of a man,He humbled Himselfand became obedient to death,even death on a cross.
9. Therefore God highly exalted Himand gave Him the name which is above every name,
10. that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11. and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,to the glory of God the Father.
12. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but so much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13. For God is the One working in you, both to will and to do His good pleasure.
14. Do all things without murmuring and disputing,
15. that you may be blameless and harmless, sons of God, without fault, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world.
16. Hold forth the word of life that I may rejoice on the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
17. Yes, and even if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I take delight and rejoice with you all.
18. For this reason you also take delight and rejoice with me.