Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.

He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross!

Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.

but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,