Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves, each of you[a] not looking out for your own interests[b], but also each of you for the interests[c] of others.

Christ’s Humiliation and Exaltation

Think this in[d] yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

who, existing in the form of God,
    did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped,
but emptied himself
    by[e] taking the form of a slave,
    by[f] becoming in the likeness of people.
And being found in appearance like a man,
he humbled himself
    by[g] becoming obedient to the point of death,
        that is, death on a cross.
Therefore also God exalted him
    and graciously granted him the name above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow,
    of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 2:4 Some manuscripts have “each one of you”
  2. Philippians 2:4 Literally “the things of yourselves”
  3. Philippians 2:4 Literally “the things”
  4. Philippians 2:5 Or “among”
  5. Philippians 2:7 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“taking”) which is understood as means
  6. Philippians 2:7 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“becoming”) which is understood as means
  7. Philippians 2:8 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“becoming”) which is understood as means