the mind of christ

¹⁶For who has known the mind of the Lord, so that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

⁵For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus:

¹⁴But the animal nature of man does not perceive these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand it, because it must be examined spiritually. ¹⁵But the spiritual nature of man judges all things, and he himself may be judged by no man. ¹⁶For who has known the mind of the Lord, so that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

⁷For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

¹³For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹³And we are also speaking of these things, not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, bringing spiritual things together with spiritual things. ¹⁴But the animal nature of man does not perceive these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand it, because it must be examined spiritually. ¹⁵But the spiritual nature of man judges all things, and he himself may be judged by no man. ¹⁶For who has known the mind of the Lord, so that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

⁸Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.

⁵For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized. ⁷Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man. ⁸He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross. ⁹Because of this, God has also exalted him and has given him a name which is above every name, ¹⁰so that, at the name of Jesus, every knee would bend, of those in heaven, of those on earth, and of those in hell,

⁹And you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if it is true that the Spirit of God lives within you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh. ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death. ³For though this was impossible under the law, because it was weakened by the flesh, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and because of sin, in order to condemn sin in the flesh, ⁴so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. ⁵For those who are in agreement with the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh. But those who are in agreement with the spirit are mindful of the things of the spirit. ⁶For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.

⁶For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.

²Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.

⁶Whoever declares himself to remain in him, ought to walk just as he himself walked.