1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude of mind Christ Jesus had:
6 Who, being in very nature God,
7 rather, he made himself nothing
8 And being found in appearance as a human being,
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
Philippians 2:1-11
Imitating Christ's Humility
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
and gave him the name that is above every name,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
to the glory of God the Father.
