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Imitating Christ’s Humility

If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit, any tender affection and sympathy,(A) make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.(B)

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Let the same mind be in you that was[a] in Christ Jesus,(A)

who, though he existed in the form of God,
    did not regard equality with God
    as something to be grasped,(B)
but emptied himself,
    taking the form of a slave,
    assuming human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a human,(C)
    he humbled himself
    and became obedient to the point of death—
    even death on a cross.(D)

Therefore God exalted him even more highly
    and gave him the name
    that is above every other name,(E)
10 so that at the name given to Jesus
    every knee should bend,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,(F)
11 and every tongue should confess
    that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.(G)

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