Philippians 2 (Seventh Sunday of Easter)

If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from
love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2make
my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in
full accord and of one mind. 3Do nothing from selfish ambition or
conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4Let each
of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. 5Let
the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
6who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
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but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
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he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in
my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling; 13for it is God who is at work in you,
enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Reader: Word of God. Word of Life.
All: Thanks be to God.
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