1. If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2. fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,
3. nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--
4. each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.
5. For, let this mind be in you that [is] also in Christ Jesus,
6. who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God,
7. but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,
8. and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,
9. wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that [is] above every name,
10. that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow--of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth--
11. and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12. So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,
13. for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
14. All things do without murmurings and reasonings,