2Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. You have fellowship with the Spirit,^b and you have kindness and compassion for one another. ²I urge you, then, to make me completely happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and being one in soul and mind. ³Don’t do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble towards one another, always considering others better than yourselves. ⁴And look out for one another’s interests, not just for your own. ⁵The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had:

⁶He always had the nature of God,

but he did not think that by force he should try to remain^c equal with God.

⁷Instead of this, of his own free will he gave up all he had,

and took the nature of a servant.

He became like a human being

and appeared in human likeness.

⁸He was humble and walked the path of obedience all the way to death—his death on the cross.

⁹For this reason God raised him to the highest place above

and gave him the name that is greater than any other name.

¹⁰^*And so, in honour of the name of Jesus

all beings in heaven, on earth, and in the world below^d

will fall on their knees,

Read in Logos

Philippians 2:8: And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Footnotes

bYou have fellowship with the Spirit; or The Spirit has brought you into fellowship with one another.
cremain; or become.
dworld below: It was thought that the dead continued to exist in a dark world under the ground.

Cross references

*2.10, 11: Is 45:23 (LXX)