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that I should
still remain in the body. 001:025 I am convinced of this, and I know
that I shall remain, and shall go on working side by side with you all, to
promote your progress and joy in the faith; 001:026 so that, as
Christians, you may have additional reason for glorying about me as
the result of my being with you again. 001:027 Only let the lives you
live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I
come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that
you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder
to shoulder for the faith of the Good News. 001:028 Never for a
moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to
them a sure token of impending destruction, but to you it will be a sure
token of your salvation-- a token coming from God. 001:029 For you
have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ-- not only to
believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf; 001:030 maintaining,
as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which
you still hear that I am engaged in. 002:001 If then I can appeal to you
as the followers of Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love and
any common sharing of the Spirit, or if you have any

tender-heartedness and compassion, make my joy complete by being of
one mind, 002:002 united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling
giving your minds to one and the same object. 002:003 Do nothing in a
spirit of factiousness or of vainglory, but, with true humility, let every
one regard the rest as being of more account than himself; 002:004
each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those
of others also. 002:005 Let the same disposition be in you which was in
Christ Jesus. 002:006 Although from the beginning He had the nature
of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly
grasped. 002:007 Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on
Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.
002:008 And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself
and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross. 002:009 It is in
consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has
conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,
002:010 in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of
beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld,
002:011 and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is
LORD, to the glory of God the Father. 002:012 Therefore, my
dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour
earnestly with fear and trembling-- not merely as though I were present
with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour
earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation. 002:013 For it is
God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His
gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.
002:014 Be ever on your guard against a grudging and contentious
spirit, 002:015 so that you may always prove yourselves to be
blameless and spotless-- irreproachable children of God in the midst of
a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as
heavenly lights in the world, 002:016 holding out to them a Message of
Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my
race in vain nor toil in vain. 002:017 Nay, even if my life is to be
poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I rejoice,
and I congratulate you all. 002:018 And I bid you also share my
gladness, and congratulate me. 002:019 But, if the Lord permits it, I
hope before long to send Timothy to you, that I, in turn, may be
cheered by getting news of you. 002:020 For I have no one likeminded

with him, who will cherish a genuine care for you. 002:021 Everybody
concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus
Christ. 002:022 But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a
child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of
the Good News. 002:023 So it is he that I hope to send as soon as ever I
see how things go with me; 002:024 but trusting, as I do, in the Lord, I
believe that I shall myself also come to you before long. 002:025 Yet I