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Philippians 2:29 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor, "
Philippians 2:29
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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.
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Philippians 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,"
Philippians 2:2
"make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;"
Philippians 2:3
"doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;"
Philippians 2:4
"each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others."
Philippians 2:5
"Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,"
Philippians 2:6
"who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,"
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