1. Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
2. complete my joy, so that you are in agreement, having the same love, united in spirit, having one purpose.
3. Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,
4. each of you not looking out for your own interests, but also each of you for the interests of others.
5. Think this in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
6. who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped,
7. but emptied himself by taking the form of a slave, by becoming in the likeness of people. And being found in appearance like a man,
8. he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, that is, death on a cross.
9. Therefore also God exalted him and graciously granted him the name above every name,
10. so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth,
11. and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12. Therefore my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13. For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.
14. Do all things without grumbling and disputing,