Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Parallel translations
- KJV Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
- BSB Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
- NKJV Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
- NASB Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
- NLT You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
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Quick answer
Have the same mindset that Christ Jesus had. Christ's humility is the pattern for every believer.
Overview
Paul now grounds his call for humility in the supreme example of Christ. The attitude he urges is not invented but found in Jesus Himself. This verse introduces one of the New Testament's greatest passages on Christ's person and self-giving love.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- 1 Jn 2:6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
- Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
- 1 Pet 2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
- 1 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
- 1 Cor 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
- Matt 20:26–28It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.
- Rom 15:5Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
- John 13:14–15If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
- Rom 15:3For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
- Luke 22:27For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
- Rom 14:15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
- Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
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