1. Therefore if there is any encouragement in Messiah, if there is any comfort of love, if there is any fellowship of the Ruach, if there is any mercy and compassion,
2. then make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, united in spirit, with one purpose.
3. Do nothing out of selfishness or conceit, but with humility consider others as more important than yourselves,
4. looking out not only for your own interests but also for the interests of others.
5. Have this attitude in yourselves, which also was in Messiah Yeshua,
6. Who, though existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God a thing to be grasped.
7. But He emptied Himself— taking on the form of a slave, becoming the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man.
8. He humbled Himself— becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
9. For this reason God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name,
10. that at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow, in heaven and on the earth and under the earth,
11. and every tongue profess that Yeshua the Messiah is Lord— to the glory of God the Father.
12. Therefore, my loved ones, just as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence—work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
13. For the One working in you is God—both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
14. Do everything without grumbling or arguing,