Philippians 2

Imitating Christ's Humility

 ¹ 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, ² then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. ³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, ⁴ not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

    ⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude of mind Christ Jesus had:

    ⁶ Who, being in very nature ^[a] God,
       did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

    ⁷ rather, he made himself nothing
       by taking the very nature ^[b] of a servant,
       being made in human likeness.

    ⁸ And being found in appearance as a human being,
       he humbled himself
       by becoming obedient to death—
       even death on a cross!

    ⁹ Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
       and gave him the name that is above every name,

    ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
       in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

    ¹¹ and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
       to the glory of God the Father.