The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

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(Ephesians 2:11–18)

Since Messiah encourages us, since he loves us and comforts us, since God’s Spirit fellowships with us, and since Messiah is very merciful to us,

make me completely happy by doing the following things: Agree with one another, love one another, act together as one person, and try to accomplish the same things.

Never try to make yourselves more important than others nor boast about what you are doing. Instead, be humble, and in particular, honor one another more than you honor yourselves.

Each one of you should not only be concerned about your needs. You should also be concerned about other people and help them when they have needs.

The Mind of Christ

(Isaiah 52:13–15)

Think the same way as Messiah Jesus thinks:

Although he is deserving of all the honors that God should receive, he took his honors and laid them down, and did not hold on to them.

Instead, he gave up everything, taking on the qualities of a servant, and he became a human being.

And he humbled himself by taking on human form, and in his humility he obeyed God even though obedience to God meant he had to die, and he died a terrible death, the death of a criminal, death on the cross.

Because of Messiah’s obedience to him, God honored him very much; he honored him more than anyone else who has ever lived,

so that when everyone hears the name “Jesus” everyone will bow down to honor him, people who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth;

so that everyone will say the same praises, that Jesus Christ is Lord, and they will praise God the Father because of him.

Lights in the World

(Matthew 5:13–16)

My dear friends, as you always obeyed God when I was with you, now that I am apart from you, obey him even more. Honor God together, be humble, and do your best to live as those whom God is saving.

For God is working in your hearts so that you will want to do and then actually do the good things that please him.

Do everything without complaining or arguing,

so that you neither do nor think of anything wrong as you live among unbelievers, since many of these are wicked people who call evil good. Among these wicked people you should be like the stars at night that shine in the midst of darkness.

Keep trusting in the message that can make you live forever. If you do this, I will rejoice at the time when Messiah returns, because then I will know that I did not work among you uselessly.

And I will greatly rejoice with you all, even if they kill me, and my blood pours out like something I offer to God. It will be in addition to what you sacrifice to God because you trust in him.

In the same way you, too, should rejoice together with me!

Timothy and Epaphroditus

(1 Corinthians 16:10–12)

I am trusting in the Lord Jesus to be able to send Timothy to you soon. I hope that when he returns, he will encourage me by telling me about what God is doing in your lives.

I have no one else like Timothy who genuinely cares for you.

All the others whom I might send to you are concerned only about their own matters. They are not concerned enough about what Jesus Christ considers important.

But you know Timothy’s proven character, because as a son with a father he served me in the gospel.

I confidently expect to send Timothy to you as soon as I know what will happen to me.

And because I believe that the Lord wants this to happen, I am confident that they will soon release me, and that I will come to you myself.

I believe that I must send Epaphroditus back to you. He is a fellow believer and my fellow worker and soldier for Messiah, and your messenger and servant whom you sent to help me in my need.

When Epaphroditus learned that you heard he was sick, he became very worried and began longing to be there with all of you at Philippi.

Indeed, he was so sick that he almost died, but he did not die. Instead, God was very kind to him and also to me, so that I would not have a reason to grieve much.

So I am sending him back to you as quickly as possible. I will do this in order that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I might grieve less.

Welcome Epaphroditus with the great joy we have because the Lord Jesus loves us. Honor him and other believers like him.

As he was working for Messiah, he almost died. He ran the risk of dying in order to supply the things that I needed, something you could not do because you are far away from me.

(Ephesians 2:11–18)

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,

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

The Mind of Christ

(Isaiah 52:13–15)

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Lights in the World

(Matthew 5:13–16)

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.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

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,

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.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

Timothy and Epaphroditus

(1 Corinthians 16:10–12)

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.

For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

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.

Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

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.

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.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

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.