Bible: Phil 2:3, 6, 25; 3:7, 8

2:3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition 1  or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. 2:6 2 

who though he existed in the form of God 3 

did not regard equality with God

as something to be grasped,

2:25 But for now 4  I have considered it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. For he is my brother, 5  coworker and fellow soldier, and your messenger 6  and minister 7  to me in my need. 8 

3:7 Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall

3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about 1  in the orchard at the breezy time 2  of the day, and they hid 3  from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.

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