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Philippians 2:3-11

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Philippians 2:3-11

3doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

4each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

5Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

6who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

7but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

8And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

9Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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