If therefore you have consolation in the Mashiyach, and if a fullness of heart in love, and if fellowship of the spirit, and if affection and mercies;

complete my joy, that one mind may be yours, and one love, and one soul, and one purpose.

And do nothing in strife or in empty glory, but in lowliness of mind let each one consider his companion as better than himself.

And let no one be careful only for his own self, but each one also for his companion.

And think this in your souls, that which also Y'shua the Mashiyach thought;

who, when he was in the likeness of Elohim, did not consider it robbery that he is the equal of Elohim;¹

but he emptied himself and took the likeness of a servant, and was in the likeness of the sons of men, and in fashion was found as a man

and he humbled himself and became obedient as far as death, even the death of the cross.

Because of this, Elohim also highly exalted him and gave him a name that is more excellent than all names,

that at the name of Y'shua every knee should bow, of beings in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth;

and every tongue should confess that Master YHWH is Y'shua the Mashiyach, to the glory of Elohim his Father.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have at all times obeyed, not only when I am near to you, but now when I am far from you, work the work of your life more abundantly with fear and with trembling.

For Elohim is working in you both to will and to perform that which you desire.

Do everything without murmuring and without contention;

that you may be perfect and without blemish, as the pure children of Elohim who dwell in a hard and crooked generation; and appear among them as lights in the world;

so that you may be to them in place of life, for my glorying in the day of the Mashiyach, that I did not run in vain or toil for nothing.

But even if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and exult with all of you.

So also you rejoice and exult with me.

But I hope in our Master Y'shua that I will soon send Timotheos to you, so that I also may have rest when I learn about you.

For I have no other one here who is like my own soul, who will carefully care for what is yours.

For they all seek their own, and not the things of Y'shua the Mashiyach.

But you know the proof of this one, that as a son with his father, so he has served with me in the good news.

This one I hope to send to you soon, when I see how things result with me.

And I trust in my Master that I also will soon come to you.

But now a matter has pressed me to send to you Epaphroditus, the brother who is a helper and laborer with me, but your apostle and minister to my need.

Because he was longing to see you all, and was distressed that he knew you had heard that he was sick.

For he was also sick nearly to death, but Elohim had mercy on him; and not only on him, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I have sent him promptly to you, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may have a little relief.

Therefore receive him in Master YHWH with all joy, and hold in honor those who are such.

For because of the work of the Mashiyach he came near to death, and disregarded his life, that he might fill what you were lacking in the service toward me.