In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:(A)

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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

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(A)Have this attitude [a]in yourselves which was also in (B)Christ Jesus,

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 2:5 Or among

Have this same attitude in yourselves which was in Christ Jesus [look to Him as your example in selfless humility],

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5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.

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