1 Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children,
1 Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ.
6 Moreover, you began to follow the pattern I set you, and the Lords also, receiving the word with joy in the Holy Spirit, although amid severe persecution.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,
7 but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.
8 More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.