¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and during the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.^(A)

² with all humility^(A) and gentleness, with patience,^(B) bearing^(C) with one another in love,^(D)

³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition^(A) or conceit,^(B) but in humility^(C) consider others as more important^(D) than yourselves.

¹⁸ Let no one condemn^[a] you^(A) by delighting in ascetic practices^(B) and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflated^(C) by empty notions of their unspiritual^[b] mind.

²³ Although these have a reputation for wisdom^(A) by promoting self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.^[a](B)

⁵ In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. All of you clothe yourselves with^[a] humility toward one another, because