Philippians 2:6 - Compare All Versions

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Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped

Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God  as something to be exploited.

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God

who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God

Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.

who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped

who, although He existed in the form and unchanging essence of God [as One with Him, possessing the fullness of all the divine attributes—the entire nature of deity], did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped or asserted [as if He did not already possess it, or was afraid of losing it]

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped