1 If then {there be} any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of {the} Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,2 fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;3 {let} nothing {be} in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;4 regarding not each his own {qualities}, but each those of others also.5 For let this mind be in you which {was} also in Christ Jesus;6 who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;7 but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in {the} likeness of men;8 and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and {that the} death of {the} cross.9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal {beings},11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ {is} Lord to God {the} Father's glory.12 So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,13 for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to {his} good pleasure.14 Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,15 that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in {the} world,16 holding forth {the} word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.17 But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.18 In like manner do *ye* also rejoice, and rejoice with me.19 But I hope in {the} Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that *I* also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.20 For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.21 For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.23 Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:24 but I trust in {the} Lord that I myself also shall soon come;25 but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,26 since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;27 for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that *I* might be the less sorrowful.29 Receive him therefore in {the} Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour;30 because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.
1 As daar dan enige troos in Christus is, as daar enige vertroosting van die liefde, as daar enige gemeenskap van die Gees, as daar enige innige tederheid en ontferming is,2 maak dan my blydskap volkome deur eensgesind te wees en dieselfde liefde te hê, een van siel, een van sin.3 Moenie iets doen uit selfsug of uit ydele eer nie, maar in nederigheid moet die een die ander hoër ag as homself.4 Julle moet nie elkeen na sy eie belange omsien nie, maar elkeen ook na die ander s'n.5 Want hierdie gesindheid moet in julle wees wat ook in Christus Jesus was.6 Hy, wat in die gestalte van God was, het dit geen roof geag om aan God gelyk te wees nie,7 maar het Homself ontledig deur die gestalte van 'n dienskneg aan te neem en aan die mense gelyk geword;8 en in gedaante gevind as 'n mens, het Hy Homself verneder deur gehoorsaam te word tot die dood toe, ja, die dood van die kruis.9 Daarom het God Hom ook uitermate verhoog en Hom 'n naam gegee wat bo elke naam is,10 sodat in die Naam van Jesus sou buig elke knie van die wat in die hemel en die wat op die aarde en die wat onder die aarde is,11 en elke tong sou bely dat Jesus Christus die Here is tot heerlikheid van God die Vader.12 Daarom, my geliefdes, soos julle altyd gehoorsaam gewees het, nie in my teenwoordigheid alleen nie, maar baie meer nou in my afwesigheid, werk julle eie heil uit met vrees en bewing;13 want dit is God wat in julle werk om te wil sowel as om te werk na sy welbehae.14 Doen alles sonder murmurering en teëspraak,15 sodat julle onberispelik en opreg kan wees, kinders van God sonder gebrek te midde van 'n krom en verdraaide geslag onder wie julle skyn soos ligte in die wêreld,16 deurdat julle die woord van die lewe vashou, my tot 'n roem teen die dag van Christus, dat ek nie verniet geloop of verniet gearbei het nie.17 Maar al word ek as 'n drankoffer uitgegiet oor die offer en bediening van julle geloof, verbly ek my, ja, verbly ek my saam met julle almal;18 en om dieselfde rede moet julle ook bly wees en julle saam met my verbly.19 En ek hoop in die Here Jesus om TimotheÂs gou na julle te stuur, sodat ek ook welgemoed kan wees as ek julle omstandighede te wete gekom het.20 Want ek het niemand van dieselfde gesindheid wat julle belange opreg sal behartig nie;21 want hulle soek almal hul eie belange, nie die van Christus Jesus nie.22 Maar julle ken sy beproefdheid, dat hy, soos 'n kind teenoor sy vader, saam met my in die evangelie gedien het.23 Ek hoop dan om hom dadelik te stuur, so gou as ek sien hoe dit met my sal gaan;24 en ek vertrou in die Here dat ek self ook spoedig sal kom.25 Maar ek het dit noodsaaklik geag om Epafrod¡tus, my broeder en medewerker en medestryder, julle afgevaardigde en bedienaar van my behoefte, na julle te stuur,26 want hy het na julle almal verlang en was besorg, omdat julle gehoor het dat hy siek was.27 Want hy was ook siek tot by die dood; maar God was hom barmhartig, en nie hom alleen nie, maar ook my, dat ek nie droefheid op droefheid sou hê nie.28 Ek het hom dus des te spoediger gestuur, sodat julle hom kan sien en julle weer verbly en ek minder bedroef kan wees.29 Ontvang hom dan in die Here met alle blydskap en hou sulke manne in eer.30 Want ter wille van die werk van Christus het hy tot naby die dood gekom en sy lewe gewaag om aan te vul wat julle kortgekom het in die diensbetoning aan my.