OET PHP chapter 2

2 So if you all feel that Messiah is encouraging you on and if his love brings comfort and the spirit brings fellowship, if anyone feels compassion, 2 then complete my happiness by being in agreement in your thinking and being united in the same love.[fn] 3 Don’t do anything from selfish ambition or in vain conceit, but show humility and consider others to be more important than yourselves, 4 not just looking out for your own advantage, but for what others need. 5 This is how you all who are also in Messiah Yeshua should be thinking: 6 Yeshua, though he was in the form of God, didn’t take advantage of being considered equal with God, 7 but emptied himself and becoming like a human, took on the form of a slave. Then in that human form, 8 he humbled himself and became obedient all the way to death, even death on the stake. 9 That’s why God highly praised him and gave him authority over every other authority, 10 [ref]so that every being in heaven and earthly and underwater realms will bow when Yeshua is announced 11 and will honour God the father by testifying that the master is Yeshua Messiah.

2 If therefore any exhortation in chosen _one /messiah, if any consolation of _love, if any fellowship of_the_spirit, if anyone has compassions and compassions, 2 fulfill of _me the joy, in _order _that the same thing you _all _may _be _thinking, the same love having, united _in _soul, the one thing thinking.
3 Nothing do according _to selfish _ambition nor according _to vain _conceit, but the in _humility one _another considering being _above of _themselves, 4 not the things of _themselves each looking _out, but also the things of _others each.
5 This be _thinking in you _all, which also in chosen _one /messiah Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) is, 6 who in the_form of_god being, not advantage considered which to _be equal with_god, 7 but himself emptied, the_form of_a_slave having _taken, in the_likeness of _humans having _become.
And in _form having _been _found as a_human, 8 he _humbled himself, having _become obedient unto death, and the_death of_the_stake.
9 Therefore also the god him highly _exalted, and granted to _him the name which above every name, 10 in _order _that at the name of_Yaʸsous, every knee may _bow of _heavenly and earthly and subterranean realms, 11 and every tongue may _confess that the_master is Yaʸsous is chosen _one /messiah, to the_glory of_god the_father.

2:12 Shining like lights in the world

12 So then, my dear friends, work towards your salvation with fear and trembling—you always did this in my presence, so now do it much more in my absence—13 because God is the one who works in you all to both desire and to be living out his good pleasure.

14 Do everything without grumbling and arguing 15 [ref]so that you’ll all be blameless and innocent—blameless children of God among a generation that’s crooked and perverted. Then you’ll shine like lights in the world, 16 as you live out the message of life, and then I’ll be able to boast when Messiah returns because I didn’t waste my time or work for nothing, 17 but even if I’m to lose my life by being poured out like wine on your sacrifice and on the ministry of your faith, I’ll be happy and celebrate along with all of you. 18 You all should also be happy and celebrating along with me.

12 So _then, beloved of _me, as always you _all _submitted, not as in the presence of _me only, but now by _much more in the absence of _me, with fear and trembling the of _yourselves salvation be _producing.
13 For/Because god is the one working in you _all, both which to _be _willing, and which to _be _working, because/for his good _pleasure.
14 All things be _doing without grumblings and speculations, 15 in _order _that you _all _may _become blameless and innocent, children of_god blameless in_the_midst of_a_generation crooked and having _been _perverted, among whom you _all _are _shining as lights in the_world, 16 the_message of _life holding _up to a_boast to _me in the_day of_chosen _one /messiah, because not in vain I _ran, nor in vain I _laboured, 17 but if even I _am _being _poured _out on the sacrifice and ministry of _the faith of _you _all, I _am _rejoicing and I _am _rejoicing _with with _all you _all.
18 And the same also you _all be _rejoicing and be _rejoicing _with with _me.

2:19 Timothy and Epaphroditus

19 I’m hoping in the master Yeshua to be able to send Timothy to you all soon, so that I can be encouraged when I learn what you’re all up to, 20 because I have no one else so similar to me in spirit who will be genuinely caring for how you’re all doing. 21 (There’s plenty who search out what they themselves need instead of the things of Yeshua Messiah. 22 But you all know that Timothy has proven himself and has served with me in the good message like a son serving his father.) 23 So I’ll send him as soon as I can sort out what’s happening to me, 24 but I’m confident in the master that I myself will also be coming soon.

25 Meanwhile I thought it was necessary to send Epaphroditus to you all. He’s my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your ambassador and minister to my needs. 26 He’s been longing to see you all again and was upset that you heard that he’d been sick 27 because he nearly died from it, but God showed mercy to him, and not only to him but also to me that I wouldn’t have yet another hardship to go through. 28 So I sent him willingly so that when you all see him again, you’ll all be very happy and I’ll be less anxious here. 29 So accept him in the master with gratefulness and treat him with honour, 30 because he nearly died after risking his life doing the work of Messiah, but he was able to minister to me in a way that all of you there couldn’t.

2:2 Here Paul repeats about being united in thought, but the repetition seems to only clutter his argument.

2:10-11: Isa 45:23 (LXX).

2:15: Deu 32:5.

19 But I _am _hoping in the_master Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), Timotheos quickly to _send to _you _all, in _order _that also _I may _be _encouraging, having _known the things concerning you _all.
20 For/Because no _one I _am _having kindred-spirit, who genuinely the things concerning you _all will _be _caring _for.
21 The ones for all the things of _themselves are _seeking, not the things of_Yaʸsous chosen _one /messiah.
22 But the provenness of _him you _all _are _knowing, that as unto_a_father a_child serves, with me he _served in the good _message.
23 This one therefore on _one _hand I _am _hoping to _send, when wishfully I _may _look _out the things concerning me immediately, 24 on _the _other _hand I _have _persuaded in the_master that also myself quickly I _will _be _coming.
25 But necessary I _considered, Epafroditos, the brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier of _me, and of _you _all ambassador and minister of _the need of _me, to _send to you _all, 26 since longing _for he _was for _all for _you _all, and distressing because you _all _heard that he _ailed.
27 For/Because also he _ailed nearly to _death, but the god showed _mercy _to him, not and him only, but also me, in _order _that not sorrow on sorrow I _may _have.
28 Therefore more _earnestly I _sent him, in _order _that having _seen him again, you _all _may _be _elated and _I less _anxious may _be.
29 Therefore be _accepting him in the_master with all joy, and the such honoured ones be _having, 30 because because _of the work of_chosen _one /messiah unto death he _neared, having _risked with _his life, in _order _that he _may _fulfill _up the of _you _all lacking, of _the toward me ministry.

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