nothing according to selfishness or empty conceit (3a) but with humility regarding one another as more important than yourselves (3b) not looking out for your own things (4a) but also for those of others (4b) Without arguing for a clear poetic structure, one must recognize the rhythmic consistency of the short clauses, the repeated parallelism, and the strophic quality of sections A, C, and D. For reasons that will become apparent as we proceed, it will be helpful to begin with a discussion of the
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