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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PHP.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in one spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> striving together as one for the faith of the gospel </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PHP.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved&#8212;and that by God. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PHP.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PHP.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHP.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHP.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHP.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHP.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHP.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Who, being in very nature</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the form of</span></span></span><span class="content"> God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.2.6"><span class="content">did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">rather, he made himself nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.2.7"><span class="content">by taking the very nature</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the form</span></span></span><span class="content"> of a servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.2.7"><span class="content">being made in human likeness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And being found in appearance as a man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.2.8"><span class="content">he humbled himself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.2.8"><span class="content">by becoming obedient to death&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.2.8"><span class="content">even death on a cross!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHP.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Therefore God exalted him to the highest place</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHP.2.9"><span class="content">and gave him the name that is above every name,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHP.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHP.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHP.2.10"><span class="content">in heaven and on earth and under the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHP.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.2.11"><span class="content">to the glory of God the Father.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Do Everything Without Grumbling</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHP.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed&#8212;not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence&#8212;continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHP.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHP.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHP.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do everything without grumbling or arguing, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHP.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so that you may become blameless and pure, &#8220;children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:15 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 32:5</span></span></span><span class="content"> Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHP.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHP.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHP.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.133.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How good and pleasant it is</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.133.1"><span class="content">when God&#8217;s people live together in unity!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.133.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It is like precious oil poured on the head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="content">running down on the beard,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="content">running down on Aaron&#8217;s beard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="content">down on the collar of his robe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.133.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It is as if the dew of Hermon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.133.3"><span class="content">were falling on Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.133.3"><span class="content">For there the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bestows his blessing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.133.3"><span class="content">even life forevermore.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I appeal to you, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 11 and 26; and in 2:1; 3:1; 4:6; 6:8; 7:24, 29; 10:1; 11:33; 12:1; 14:6, 20, 26, 39; 15:1, 6, 50, 58; 16:15, 20.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. </span></span></div>
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