Chapter 2
IF there be therefore any consolation in the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah, if any comfort of Chesed, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
2 Fulfil you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same Chesed, being of one accord, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or self-conceit; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem the other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua:
6 Who, being in the form of Yah, did not regard equality with Yah a matter to be grasped:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the Stake.
9 Wherefore Yah also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Yahooshua every knee should bow, of things in Heaven, and things in Earth, and things under the Earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah is Adonay, to the Kavod of Yah the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is Yah which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without grumbling and disputing:
15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of Yah, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of the Anointed One of Yah, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your Emunah, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in Adonay Yahooshua to send Timotiyos shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah’s.
22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with his father, he has served with me in the Good News.
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24 But I trust in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that I also myself shall come shortly.
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard that he had been sick.
27 For indeed he was sick nigh to death: but Yah had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I sent him therefore the more eagerly, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
29 Receive him therefore in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
30 Because for the work of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah he was nigh to death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.