¹ Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

⁶ who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider it robbery to be equal with God,

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

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

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

⁶ You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

¹ Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."