1. So then, as Christians, do you have any encouragement? Do you have any comfort from love? Do you have any spiritual relationships? Do you have any sympathy and compassion?
2. Then fill me with joy by having the same attitude and the same love, living in harmony, and keeping one purpose in mind.
3. Don’t act out of selfish ambition or be conceited. Instead, humbly think of others as being better than yourselves.
4. Don’t be concerned only about your own interests, but also be concerned about the interests of others.
5. Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
6. Although he was in the form of God and equal with God,he did not take advantage of this equality.
7. Instead, he emptied himself by taking on the form of a servant,by becoming like other humans,by having a human appearance.
8. He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,death on a cross.
9. This is why God has given him an exceptional honor—the name honored above all other names—
10. so that at the name of Jesus everyone in heaven, on earth,and in the world below will kneel