Greetings everybody, in the name of the LORD.
I post these verses as a help in your growing, in a modern translation and in plain english, both say the same thing but both show a new way of looking at scripture.
The Message
Philippians 2:3-8
Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead.
2:4
Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
2:5
Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself.
2:6
He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what.
2:7
Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human!
2:8
Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death - and the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion.
May the Holy Spirit illumenate your path.
SHALOM.
The Bible in Basic English Philippians 2:3-8
Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
2:4
Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.
2:5
Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,
2:6
To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;
2:7
But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;
2:8
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.
May the Holy Spirit illuminate the path as you go.
SHALOM.
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