Everyone should look not to his own interests,(A) but rather to the interests of others.(B)

Christ’s Humility and Exaltation

Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,

who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God(C)
as something to be exploited.[a]
Instead he emptied himself(D)
by assuming the form of a servant,(E)
taking on the likeness of humanity.(F)
And when he had come as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death—
even to death on a cross.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:6 Or to be grasped, or to be held on to

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