Saints should be of one mind and one spirit—Every knee shall bow to Christ—Saints must work out their salvation—Paul faces martyrdom with joy.

 IF there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any ^abowels^• and mercies,

 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same ^alove, being of ^bone ^caccord^•, of one mind.

 Let nothing be done through ^astrife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each ^besteem other better than themselves.

 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

 Who, being in the ^aform of God, thought it not robbery to be ^bequal with God:

 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a ^aservant^•, and was made in the likeness of men:

 And being found in ^afashion^• as a man, he ^bhumbled himself, and became ^cobedient^• unto ^ddeath, even the ^edeath of the cross.

 Wherefore God also hath highly ^aexalted him, and given him a ^bname^• which is above every name:

 That at the ^aname^• of Jesus every ^bknee^• should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is ^aLord, to the glory of God the Father.

 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, ^awork^• out your own ^bsalvation with fear and trembling.

 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

 Do all things without murmurings and ^adisputings:

 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the ^asons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse ^bnation^•, among whom ye ^cshine as lights in the world;

 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.

 Yea, and if I be ^aoffered^• upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

 For all ^aseek their ^bown^•, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

 But ye know the ^aproof^• of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you ^aEpaphroditus^•, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all ^agladness; and ^bhold^• such in ^creputation^•:

 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your ^alack^• of service toward me.