Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition<n id="1" /> 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<n id="1" /> not only<n id="2" /> about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">He humbled himself,p> <p class="poetry">by becoming obedient to the point of deathp> <p class="poetry">&#8211; even death on a cross!p>

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

<n id="1" /> although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became<n id="2" /> little children<n id="3" /> among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

that each of you know how to possess his own body<n id="1" /> in holiness and honor,

and to esteem them most highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God&#8217;s purpose at his appointed time.<n id="1" />

In this way they will save up<n id="1" /> a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation<n id="2" /> for the future and so lay hold of<n id="3" /> what is truly life.p>

<p class="poetry">If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, since he cannot deny himself.<n id="1" />p>

and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.

But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets<n id="1" /> what sort of person he was.

If so, have you not made distinctions<n id="1" /> among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?<n id="2" />

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

Above all keep<n id="1" /> your love for one another fervent,<n id="2" /> because <i><b>love covers a multitude of sinsb>.i><n id="3" />

Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for,<n id="1" /> but receive a full reward.<n id="2" />p>

Now when Jesus<n id="1" /> realized what they were thinking, he said to them,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed,<n id="3" /> and no town or house divided against itself will stand.

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified<n id="1" /> rather than the Pharisee.<n id="2" /> For everyone who exalts<n id="3" /> himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.&#8221;p>

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us,<n id="1" /> so that we would not trust in ourselves<n id="2" /> but in God who raises the dead.