If there is encouragement,

Any comfort from the love;

Through the Spirit not lament,

Because of joy from above.

Having humility in Christ,

Will bring to you empathy;

For what you have been enticed,

Through fondness and sympathy.

Fill your joy of the same mind,

The same love in full accord;

For being humble and kind,

With the mindset of the Lord.

Have no selfish ambition,

For yourself having conceit;

Nor of any obsession,

Causes a lustful deceit.

Look not only to your own,

But interest of others;

Doing what God would condone,

About serving your brothers.

Let this mind be within you,

Which as well in Jesus Christ;

Always keep to His Word true,

Let not yourself be enticed.

Although in the form of God,

He did not count as equal;

But living here was not flawed,

Always peaceful and tranquil.

By taking a servant form,

And born of our likeness;

He went on His daily norm,

Not having obliqueness.

For in the fashion of man,

He was humbled to obey;

To fit with God and His plan,

Through His death He did not stray.

For every knee shall bow,

And every tongue confess;

When judgment will show them how,

Their pleasures made them transgress.



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