Filipenses 2

1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, 2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; 4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

14 Do all things without complaining and arguing, 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, 16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain. 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. 18 In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. 20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. 22 But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News. 23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me. 24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

25 But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need, 26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick. 27 For indeed he was sick nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. 28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor, 30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

Te Ngākau Māhaki me te Whakahirahiratanga o Īhu

1 Nā, ki te mea he whakamārie kei roto i a te Karaiti, ki te mea he pēhi mamae tō te aroha, ki te mea he whiwhinga tahitanga ki te Wairua, ki te mea he ngākau aroha, he mahi tohu, 2 kia rite tōku hari i a koutou, kia kotahi te whakaaro, kia kotahi te aroha, huihuia ngā ngākau i runga i te whakaaro kotahi. 3 Kei meinga tētahi mea i runga i te wehewehe, i te whakapehapeha rānei, engari i runga i te ngākau pāpaku, me te whakanui a tētahi i tētahi ki runga ake i a ia. 4 Kaua tēnā o koutou nā, e titiro ki ōna mea anake, engari me titiro anō tēnā, tēnā o koutou ki ngā mea a ētahi atu.

5 Ko tēnei hei whakaaro mō koutou, ko tērā i a Karaiti Īhu:

6 Ahakoa hoki i a ia te āhua o te Atua,

kīhai i meinga e ia te rite ki te Atua

hei taonga kapo mai.

7 Engari i mea i a ia anō kia pōaha,

ka mau ki te āhua o te pononga,

ka meinga kia rite ki te tangata;

8 ā, ka kitea nei tōna āhua

e rite ana ki tō te tangata,

ka whakapāpaku ia i a ia,

ka meinga kia ngohengohe, ahakoa ki te mate,

āe rā, ki te mate o te rīpeka.

9 Nā konei whakateiteitia ake ana ia e te Atua,

ā, hoatu ana ki a ia te ingoa nui atu i ngā ingoa katoa;

10 kia tuku ai i runga i te ingoa o Īhu ngā turi katoa,

o ngā mea i te rangi, o ngā mea i te whenua,

o ngā mea i raro i te whenua;

11 ā, kia whakaae ngā arero katoa

ko Īhu Karaiti te Ariki,

hei whakakorōria i te Atua Matua.

E Tīaho ana he Māramatanga i roto i te Ao

12 Heoi, e ōku tēina aroha, he mea tonu ia nā koutou te ngohengohe ki ahau i ngā wā katoa, ehara i te mea i ōku wā anake i konā, engari rawa ia ināianei i ahau kāhore i konā, nā, whakaotia tō koutou whakaoranga i runga i te wehi, i te wiri; 13 ko te Atua hoki te kaimahi i roto i a koutou o te hiahia, o te mahi, hei mea i tāna i pai ai.

14 I ā koutou mahi katoa kaua te amuamu, te tautohetohe; 15 kia kore ai koutou e whaikupuria, kia tapatahi ai, he tamariki kohakore nā te Atua, i waenganui o te whakatupuranga tutū, parori kē, kei roto nei koutou i a rātou e tīaho ana hei rama i te ao; 16 kia mau pū ki te kupu o te ora; kia hari ai ahau ā te rā o te Karaiti, kīhai ahau i oma noa, kīhai i mahi noa.

17 Nā, ki te ringihia ahau ki runga ki te patunga tapu, ki ngā mahi a tō koutou whakapono, ka hari ahau, inā, ka hari tahi me koutou katoa. 18 Waihoki ko koutou, kia hari, hari tahi me ahau.

Ko Tīmoti rāua ko Epaporitu

19 Otiia, e mea ana ahau i roto i te Ariki, i a Īhu, ki te tono tata atu i a Tīmoti ki a koutou, kia ora ai hoki tōku ngākau, ina mōhio ahau ki tō koutou āhua. 20 Kāhore hoki ōku tāngata rite te ngākau ki tōna, hei mahara pono ki ā koutou mea. 21 Ko tā te katoa hoki e rapu nei, ko tā rātou ake, kāhore ngā mea a Īhu Karaiti. 22 Ko koutou ia e mātau ana ki ōna tohu, he pērā tāna me tā te tamaiti ki te matua, ko tōku hoa ia ki te kawe haere i te rongopai. 23 Ko ia tāku e mea nei kia tonoa wawetia atu, ina kite ahau i te tukunga iho ki ahau. 24 Otiia, e ū ana tōku whakaaro i roto te Ariki, ka hohoro tōku tae atu.

25 I mea anō ia ahau me tono atu ki a koutou a Epaporitu, tōku teina, tōku hoa mahi, tōku hoa hōia, nā koutou ia karere, he kaimahi anō hoki i ngā mea i matea e ahau. 26 Kōingo tonu hoki ia ki a koutou katoa, kōnohi rawa, nō te mea i rongo koutou he tūroro ia. 27 He tūroro rā hoki ia, tata pū ki te mate. Otirā, i tohungia ia e te Atua; ehara anō i te mea ko ia anake, ko ahau anō hoki, kei tāpiritia he pōuri ki tōku pōuri.

28 Koia i nui rawa ai tōku ngākau ki te tono atu i a ia, kia kite ai anō koutou i a ia, kia hari ai, kia tāharahara iho ai hoki tōku pōuri. 29 Kia nui te hari i runga i te Ariki, ina tae atu ia; whakahōnoretia anō hoki ngā pērā; 30 nō te mea nā te mahi ki a te Karaiti i tata ai ia ki te mate, te ihupuku ki te ora, kia rite ai i a ia ngā mahi ki ahau, kīhai nei i rite i a koutou.