1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,[ † ]Colossians 3:12 2fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.[ † ]John 3:29Romans 12:16Philippians 4:2 3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.[ † ]Galatians 5:26James 3:14Romans 12:10Ephesians 5:21 4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.[ † ]1 Corinthians 13:5Romans 15:1-2 5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:[ † ]Matthew 11:29Romans 15:3 6who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:[ † ]2 Corinthians 4:4 7but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:[ † ]Psalms 22:6Isaiah 42:1John 1:14Romans 8:3Galatians 4:4Hebrews 2:17 8and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.[ † ]Psalms 40:6-8Matthew 26:39John 10:18Romans 5:19Hebrews 5:8 9Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:[ † ]Matthew 28:18Hebrews 2:9Psalms 68:18Psalms 110:1Isaiah 52:13Acts 2:33Isaiah 9:6Luke 1:32Ephesians 1:21 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;[ † ]Isaiah 45:23Romans 14:11Revelation 5:13 11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.[ † ]John 13:13Romans 10:9Romans 14:9
12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye 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.[ † ]Philippians 1:5-6Philippians 4:15John 6:27-292 Peter 1:10Ephesians 6:5 13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.[ † ]Romans 12:31 Corinthians 12:61 Corinthians 15:102 Corinthians 3:5Hebrews 13:20-21Ephesians 1:5 14Do all things without murmurings and disputings:[ † ]1 Corinthians 10:101 Peter 4:9Romans 14:1 15that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;[ † ]Matthew 5:15-16 16holding 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.[ † ]2 Corinthians 1:14Galatians 2:2Isaiah 49:4Galatians 4:111 Thessalonians 3:5 17Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.[ † ]2 Corinthians 12:152 Timothy 4:6Numbers 28:6-7Romans 15:162 Corinthians 7:4 18For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
19But 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.[ † ]Romans 16:21 20For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.[ † ]1 Corinthians 16:102 Timothy 3:10 21For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. 22But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.[ † ]1 Corinthians 4:17 23Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. 24But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. 25Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.[ † ]Philippians 4:18Philemon 2John 13:162 Corinthians 8:232 Corinthians 11:9 26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.[ † ]Philippians 1:8 27For 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. 28I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: 30because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.[ † ]1 Corinthians 16:17Philippians 4:10