If, therefore, there is in the Anointed any comfort, if any consolation of love, if any communion of spirit, if any inward affections and feelings of pity, 2make my joy full, so that you may be of the same mind, having the same love, together in soul, minding one thing – 3nothing according to rivalry or according to vainglory, but rather in humility esteeming each other as far better than your own selves, 4each looking not to his own concerns, but rather each to the concerns of others, 5be of that mind in yourselves that was also in the Anointed One Jesus, 6who, subsisting in God’s form, did not deem being on equal terms with God a thing to be grasped, 7but instead emptied himself, taking a slave’s form, coming to be in a likeness of human beings; and, being found as a human being in shape, 8he reduced himself, becoming obedient all the way to death, and a death by a cross. 9For which reason God also exalted him on high and graced him with the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee – of being heavenly and earthly and subterranean – should bend, 11and every tongue gladly confess that Jesus the Anointed is Lord, for the glory of God the Father.
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