Popular Bible Verses from Philippians 2

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Each of you has to think about what is good for the others. Don’t only think about what is good for yourself. Don’t think that you are better than other people, but think that they are better than you. And don’t do things only to get people to say you are good. And don’t try to be a boss over other people.

You have to think the same way that Jesus Christ thought.

He was the same as God. He was just as important as God. But he didn’t reckon that he had to keep on being important, like God is. Instead, he left all that, and he made himself like a nobody. He was born into this world and looked like other human beings. He was a man living here. And he worked hard to help people. And then he made himself even less important. He did everything that God wanted him to do, he even died. He let people nail him to a cross and kill him.

God is the one that is working inside you. He helps you think the right way, so that you want to do the good things that make him happy, and he gives you the power to do those good things.

So then God made him alive again and lifted him up to the most important place in heaven. And God made him more powerful than everyone else. One day, everyone will hear the name of Jesus, and they will get down on their knees and show him respect. All the people and spirits will show respect to Jesus. Everything in heaven, and everything on the earth, and everything under the earth, they will all show respect to Jesus. And every one of them will say out loud, “Jesus Christ is the boss.” That will happen to show that God our father is very great and good.

And while you do those things, don’t get angry or argue about them. Then you will be properly good, so that nobody can blame you for anything. You are God’s kids living among really bad people that always go wrong. So you have to live in a way that is properly good. Then everyone will see that you are properly good. You will be like bright stars in a dark sky.

So, my good friends, you always have to do what God wants. I know that you did that when I was with you, and I reckon you still do it now that I’m not with you any more. So you have to work hard and keep on trying to do what God wants. You see, God saved you, so give him proper respect and try to live his way. You have to be too frightened to do any bad thing that will make him angry.