Philippians 2:1-10 ▼

1 If then I can appeal to you as the followers of Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love and any common sharing of the Spirit, or if you have any tender-heartedness and compassion, make my joy complete by being of one mind,

2 united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.

3 Do nothing in a spirit of factiousness or of vainglory, but, with true humility, let every one regard the rest as being of more account than himself;

4 each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.

5 Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.

6 Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

7 Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.

8 And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.

9 It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,

10 in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld,