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 Neuertheles, to abide in the felſh, is more needfull for you.

And hauing this confidence, I know that I ſhall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and ioy of faith,

That your reioycing may bee more abundant in Ieſus Chriſt for me, by my comming to you againe.

Onely let your conuerſation bee as it becommeth the Goſpel of Chriſt, that whether I come and ſee you, or elſe be abſsent, I may heare of your affaires, that yee ſtand faſt in one ſpirit, with one minde, ſtriuing together for the faith of the Goſpel,

And in nothing terrified by your aduerſaries, which is to them an euident token of perdition: but to you of ſaluation, and that of God.

For vnto you it is giuen in the behalfe of Chriſt, not onely to beleeve on him, but alſo to ſuffer for his ſake,

having the ſame conflict which ye ſaw in me, and now heare to be in me.

F there bee therefore any conſolation in Chriſt, if any comfort of loue, if any fellowſhip of the Spirit, if any bowels, ⁊ mercies;

Fulfill ye my ioy, that yee be like minded, hauing the ſame loue, being of one accord, of one minde.

Let nothing bee done through ſtrife, or vaine glory, but in lowlineſſe of minde let each eſteeme other better then themſelues.

Looke not euery man on his owne things, but euery man alſo on the things of others.

Let this minde bee in you, which was alſo in Chriſt Ieſus:

Who being in the forme of God, thought it not robbery to bee equall with God:

But made himſelfe of no reputation, and tooke vpon him the forme of a ſeruant, and was made in the ǁ likeneſſe of men.

And being found in faſhion as a man, he humbled himſelfe, and became obedient vnto death, euen the death of the Croſſe.

Wherefore God alſo hath highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name which is aboue euery name:

That at the Name of Ieſus euery knee ſhould bow, of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth:

And that euery tongue ſhould confeſſe, that Ieſus Chriſt is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Wherefore, my beloued, as ye haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my preſence onely, but now much more in my abſence; worke out your owne ſaluation with feare, and trembling.

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

Doe all things without murmurings, and diſputings:

That yee may bee blameleſſe and ǁ harmeleſſe, the ſonnes of God, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and peruerſe nation, among whom ǁ ye ſhine as lights in the world:

Holding foorth the word of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Chriſt, that I have not runne in vaine, neither laboured in vanie.

Yea, and if I bee † offered vpon the ſacrifice and ſeruice of your faith, I ioy, and reioyce with you all.

For the ſame cauſe alſo doe ye ioy, and reioyce with me.

ǁ But I truſt in the Lord Ieſus, to ſend Timotheus ſhortly vnto you, that I alſo may bee of good comfort, when I know your ſtate.

For I haue no man ǁ like minded, who will naturally care for your ſtate.

For all ſeeke their owne, not the things which are Ieſus Chriſts.

But ye know the proofe of him, That as a ſonne with the father, hee hath ſerued with me, in the Goſpel.

Him therefore I hope to ſend preſently, ſo ſoone as I ſhall ſee how it wil goe with me.

But I truſt in the Lord, that I alſo my selfe ſhall come ſhortly.

But I ſuppoſed it neceſſary, to ſend you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour, and fellow