Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Parallel translations
- WEB Have this in your mind, 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 that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
- Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
- 1 Pet 2:21For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
- 1 Pet 4:1Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
- 1 Cor 10:33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
- Matt 20:26–28But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
- Rom 15:5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
- John 13:14–15If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
- Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
- Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- Rom 15:3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
- Luke 22:27For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
- Rom 14:15But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
- Acts 10:38How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
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