1. Christ encourages you, and his love comforts you. God's Spirit unites you, and you are concerned for others.
2. Now make me completely happy! Live in harmony by showing love for each other. Be united in what you think, as if you were only one person.
3. Don't be jealous or proud, but be humble and consider others more important than yourselves.
4. Care about them as much as you care about yourselves
5. and think the same way that Christ Jesus thought:
6. Christ was truly God.But he did not try to remainequal with God.
7. Instead he gave up everythingand became a slave,when he becamelike one of us.
8. Christ was humble.He obeyed God and even diedon a cross.
9. Then God gave Christthe highest placeand honoured his nameabove all others.
10. So at the name of Jesuseveryone will bow down,those in heaven, on earth,and under the earth.
11. And to the gloryof God the Fathereveryone will openly agree,“Jesus Christ is Lord!”
12. My dear friends, you always obeyed when I was with you. Now that I am away, you should obey even more. So work with fear and trembling to discover what it really means to be saved.