1. If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,
2. fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;
3. let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;
4. regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also.
5. For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;
6. who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;
7. but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in the likeness of men;
8. and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.
9. Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,