Do nothing from (A)selfish ambition or (B)conceit, but in (C)humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you (D)look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. (E)Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] (F)who, though he was in (G)the form of God, did not count equality with God (H)a thing to be grasped,[b] but (I)emptied himself, by taking the form of a (J)servant,[c] (K)being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by (L)becoming obedient to the point of death, (M)even death on a cross.

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 2:5 Or which was also in Christ Jesus
  2. Philippians 2:6 Or a thing to be held on to for advantage
  3. Philippians 2:7 Or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)

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