5. Have this in your mind, which was also in Messiah Yeshua,
6. who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7. but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
8. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.
9. Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
10. that at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
11. and that every tongue should confess that Yeshua the Messiah is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12. So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13. For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
14. Do all things without complaining and arguing,
15. that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, amongst whom you are seen as lights in the world,
16. holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Messiah, that I didn’t run in vain nor labour in vain.