1If
you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if
any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then
make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and
purpose.3Do
nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better
than yourselves. 4Each
of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5Your
attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who,
being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be
grasped,
7but
made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And
being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9Therefore
God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
