Philippians 2:1-11 ▼

1 If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,

2 make my joy complete by thinking the same way, having the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

4 Everyone should look not to his own interests, but rather to the interests of others.

5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,

6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited.

7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man,

8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death — even to death on a cross.

9 For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow — in heaven and on earth and under the earth —

11 and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.