Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Fill Up My Joy By Being United In Love And Humility

2 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of ^[a] love, if any fellowship^[b] of the Spirit, if any deep-feelings and compassions, ² fill-up my joy, which is that you be thinking the same thing^[c], having the same love, united-in-spirit, thinking^[d] the one thing, ³ doing nothing based-on selfish-interest nor based on conceit, but with humble-mindedness regarding one another as surpassing^[e] yourselves; ⁴ not each looking-out-for your own things, but also each the things of others.

Think And Behave Like Christ Did

⁵ Be thinking^[f] this in you, which also was in Christ Jesus— ⁶ Who, while^[g] being^[h] in the form^[i] of God, did not regard the being equal with God a thing-to-be-grasped^[j], ⁷ but emptied Himself, having taken the form of a slave, having come^[k] in the likeness^[l] of humans^[m]. And having been found as a man in outward-appearance, ⁸ He humbled Himself, having become obedient to the point of death— and a death of a cross! ⁹ Therefore God also highly-exalted Him, and granted Him the name above every name ¹⁰ in-order-that every knee should bow at the name of Jesus— of heavenly ones and earthly ones and ones under-the-earth— ¹¹ and every tongue should confess-out^[n] that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.