3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition 2:3 Rm 2:8 or conceit, 2:3 Gl 5:26 but in humility 2:3 Col 3:12 consider others as more important 2:3 Rm 13:1; Php 3:8; 4:7; 1Pt 2:13 than yourselves. 4 Everyone should look not to his own interests, 2:4 Rm 15:1 but rather to the interests of others. 2:4 Lv 19:18; Mk 10:45; 12:31; 1Co 10:24; 13:5; Php 2:21
Christ’s Humility and Exaltation
5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,
6 who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God 2:6 Is 9:6; Jn 1:1,14; 20:28; Rm 9:5; Col 1:15–16; Ti 2:13; Heb 1:2–13; 2Pt 1:1; 1Jn 4:14–15
as something to be exploited. 2:6 Or to be grasped, or to be held on to
7 Instead he emptied himself 2:7 Mk 9:12; 2Co 8:9; 13:4
by assuming the form of a servant, 2:7 Is 42:1; 53:12; Mt 20:28; Mk 10:45
taking on the likeness of humanity. 2:7 Jn 1:14; Rm 8:3; Gl 4:4; 1Tm 2:5; Heb 2:17
And when he had come as a man,
8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death —
even to death on a cross. 2:8 Lk 23:26; Php 3:10