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The Living Bible |
New Living Translation |
New Living Translation
(2nd ed, 2004) |
New American
Standard Bible (1995) |
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1 Is there any such thing as Christians
cheering each other up? Do you love me enough to want to help me? Does
it mean anything to you that we are brothers in the Lord, sharing the
same Spirit? Are your hearts tender and sympathetic at all? |
1 Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort
from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts
tender and sympathetic? |
1 Is there any encouragement from
belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship
together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? |
1 Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any
consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any
affection and compassion, |
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Then make me truly happy by loving each other and agreeing
wholeheartedly with each other, working together with one heart and
mind and purpose. |
2 Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other,
loving one another, and working together with one heart and purpose. |
2 Then
make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving
one another, and working together with one mind and purpose. |
2 make my joy complete by being of the
same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one
purpose. |
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3 Don’t be selfish; don’t live to
make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as
better than yourself. |
3 Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be
humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. |
3 Don’t be selfish; don’t try to
impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than
yourselves. |
3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty
conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more
important than yourselves; |
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Don’t just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others,
too, and in what they are doing. |
4 Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in
others, too, and what they are doing. |
4 Don’t
look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others,
too. |
4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but
also for the interests of others. |
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5 Your attitude should be the kind
that was shown us by Jesus Christ, |
5 Your attitude should be the same that Christ Jesus had. |
5 You must have the same attitude
that Christ Jesus had. |
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, |
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6 who, though he was God, did not demand and cling
to his rights as God, |
6 Though he was God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God. |
6 Though he was God,
he did
not think of equality with God as something to cling to. |
6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality
with God a thing to be grasped, |
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7 but laid aside his mighty power and glory,
taking the disguise of a slave and becoming like men.a |
7 He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and
appeared in human form. |
7 Instead, he gave up his divine
privileges; he took
the humble position of a slave
and was born as a human
being.
When he appeared in human form,
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7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and
being made in the likeness of men. |
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8 And he humbled himself even
further, going so far as actually to die a criminal’s death on a
cross.b |
8 And in human form he obediently humbled himself even further by
dying a criminal’s death on a cross. |
8 he humbled himself in obedience to
God
and died a criminal’s death on a cross. |
8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming
obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. |
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TLB
The Living Bible
© 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Used by permission of Tyndale
House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved.
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NLT
Holy Bible,
New Living Translation, copyright © 1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.
All rights reserved.
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NLT2
Holy Bible,
New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable
Trust. All rights reserved. |
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NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE
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1963, 1968, 1971, 1972,1973,
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