1 Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children,
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.
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.
1 Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."