1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, |
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. |
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. |
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. |
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: |
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: |
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: |
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. |
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: |
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; |
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. |
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. |
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: |
