# “Everything for us” by John Calvin

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- Published: 2019-03-15T12:00:28-05:00
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“Christ has been given us by the Father in such a way that His whole life is a mirror
that is set before us. As, then, a mirror is bright, yet not for itself, but so 
that it may be useful and profitable to others, so Christ did not seek or receive
anything for Himself, but everything for us. For what need, I ask, had He, who was
equal with the Father, of a new exaltation?”

–John Calvin, [_Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries: Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians, Volume 11_](https://amzn.to/2qUJ2XC),
Trans. T.H.L. Parker (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1965), 250-251. Calvin is commenting
on Philippians 2:9.

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