¹ Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

⁵ Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

⁶ To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

⁷ But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

⁸ And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

⁹ For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;

⁶ And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

¹ So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.

²⁴ God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.