1 If therefore there is any exhortation in
Christ, if any consolation of love,
if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies
and compassion,

2 make my joy full by being like-minded,
having the same love, being of one accord,
of one mind;

3 doing nothing through rivalry or
through conceit, but in humility, each
counting others better than himself;

4 each of you not just looking to his own
things, but each of you also to the things of
others.

5 Have this in your mind, which was also
in Christ Jesus,

6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t
consider equality with God a thing to be
grasped,

7 but emptied himself, taking the form
of a servant, being made in the likeness of
men.

8 And being found in human form, he
humbled himself, becoming obedient to
the point of death, yes, the death of the
cross.

9 Therefore God also highly exalted him,
and gave to him the name which is above
every name,

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of those in heaven, those on
earth, and those under the earth,

11 and that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.

12 So then, my beloved, even as you have
always obeyed, not only in my presence,
but now much more in my absence, work
out your ownsalvation withfear andtrembling.

13 For it is God who works in you both to
will and to work for his good pleasure.

14 Do all things without complaining and
arguing,

15 that you may become blameless and
harmless, children of God without defect
in the middle of a crooked and perverse
generation, among whom you are seen as
lights in the world,

16 holding up the word of life, that I
may have something to boast in the day of
Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in
vain.