2Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, ²complete my joy, so that you are in agreement^a, having the same love, united in spirit, having one purpose^b. ³Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves, ⁴each of you^c not looking out for your own interests^d, but also each of you for the interests^e of others.

Christ’s Humiliation and Exaltation

⁵Think this in^f yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

⁶who, existing in the form of God,

did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped,

⁷but emptied himself

by^* taking the form of a slave,

by^* becoming in the likeness of people.

And being found in appearance like a man,

⁸he humbled himself

by^* becoming obedient to the point of death,

that is, death on a cross.

⁹Therefore also God exalted him

and graciously granted him the name above every name,

¹⁰so 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,

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

aLiterally “you think the same thing
bLiterally “thinking the one thing”
cSome manuscripts have “each one of you”
dLiterally “the things of yourselves”
eLiterally “the things”
fOr “among”
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“taking”) which is understood as means
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“becoming”) which is understood as means
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“becoming”) which is understood as means