Philippians 2:1-11
Imitating Christ’s Humility
2If then there is any encouragement in
Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any
compassion and sympathy, 2make my joy complete: be of the same mind,
having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3Do
nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard
others as better than yourselves. 4Let each of you look not to your
own interests, but to the interests of others. 5Let the same mind be
in you that was* in Christ Jesus,
6who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
7but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
