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Imitating Christ's Humility

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit,^(a) if any tenderness and compassion,^(b)

then make my joy complete^(c) by being like-minded,^(d) having the same love, being one^(e) in spirit and of one mind.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.^(f) Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,^(g)

not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.^(h)

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:⁽ⁱ⁾

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

rather, he made himself nothing^(l) by taking the very nature^[b] of a servant,^(m) being made in human likeness.⁽ⁿ⁾

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death^(o)— even death on a cross!^(p)

Therefore God exalted him^(q) to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,^(r)

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,^(s) in heaven and on earth and under the earth,^(t)

and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,^(u) to the glory of God the Father.