Parallel Verses
Worrell New Testament
Who, existing originally in the form of God, accounted it not a prize to he equal with God.
New American Standard Bible
who, although He
King James Version
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Holman Bible
did not consider equality with God
as something to be used for His own advantage.
International Standard Version
In God's own form existed he, and shared with God equality, deemed nothing needed grasping.
A Conservative Version
who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.
American Standard Version
who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Amplified
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];
An Understandable Version
He existed in the form of God [i.e., He shared God's very nature], but did not consider [remaining] equal with God something [to continue] to hold onto.
Anderson New Testament
who, being in the form of God, did not think it an act of robbery to be equal with God;
Bible in Basic English
To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;
Common New Testament
who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Daniel Mace New Testament
who tho' he was the image of God, did not affect to appear with divine majesty, but divested himself thereof,
Darby Translation
who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;
Godbey New Testament
who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God,
Goodspeed New Testament
Though he possessed the nature of God, he did not grasp at equality with God,
John Wesley New Testament
Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God;
Julia Smith Translation
Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God
King James 2000
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God:
Lexham Expanded Bible
who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped,
Modern King James verseion
who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Which, being in the shape of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.
Moffatt New Testament
Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God
Montgomery New Testament
who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,
NET Bible
who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,
New Heart English Bible
who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Noyes New Testament
who, being in the form of God, did not regard it as a thing to be grasped at to be on an equality with God,
Sawyer New Testament
who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God;
The Emphasized Bible
Who, in form of God, subsisting, not, a thing to be seized, accounted the being equal with God,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
who being in the form of God counted it no usurpation to claim equality with God:
Twentieth Century New Testament
Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,
Webster
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Weymouth New Testament
Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.
Williams New Testament
Though He was existing in the nature of God, He did not think His being on an equality with God a thing to be selfishly grasped,
World English Bible
who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Worsley New Testament
who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be as God.
Youngs Literal Translation
who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,
Themes
Jesus Christ, Deity Of » As jehovah's fellow and equal
Exaltation » God the father exalting jesus Christ
Humbleness » Jesus Christ humbling himself
Humility of Christ » Saints should imitate
divine Image » In saints » Of God
Jesus Christ » Preexistence of
Jesus Christ » Divinity of » Jehovah's fellow and equal
Meekness » Jesus Christ being meek
Obedience » Jesus Christ being obedient
Obedience to God » Christ, an example of
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Christ's Humiliation And Exaltation
5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; 6 Who, existing originally in the form of God, accounted it not a prize to he equal with God. 7 but emptied Himself, taking a slave's form, coming to be in the likeness of men;
Names
Cross References
John 5:18
For this cause, therefore, the Jews were seeking the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the sabbath, but also called God His Father, making Himself equal with God.
John 10:33
The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we stone Thee not, but for blasphemy, and because, Thou, being a Man, makest Thyself God!"
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.
1 Timothy 3:16
And, confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifested in flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Hebrews 1:3
Who, being an effulgence of His glory and an exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Matthew 1:23
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel," which is, being interpreted, God with us.
John 1:1-2
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He declared Him.
John 5:23
that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father Who sent Him.
John 8:58-59
Jesus said to them, "Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham existed, I am."
John 10:30
I and the Father are One."
John 10:38
but, if I do them, even though ye believe not Me, believe the works; that ye may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."
John 14:9
Jesus saith to him, "So long a time am I with you, and you do not know Me, Philip! He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how say you, 'Show us the Father?'
John 14:28
Ye heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If ye loved Me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; because the Father is greater than I.
Romans 9:5
whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
Colossians 1:15-16
Who is the image of the invisible God, Primal Source of all creation;
1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Titus 2:13
looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;
Hebrews 1:6
But, when again He introduces the First-born into the inhabited earth, He saith, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."
Hebrews 1:8
but respecting the Son, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever"; and, "A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Thy Kingdom;
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is yesterday and today the same??nd forever.
Revelation 1:17-18
And, when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead! And He laid His right hand on me, saying, "Fear not; I am the First and the Last,
Revelation 21:6
And He said to me, "It has come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to him that thirsted of the fountain of the water of life freely.
John 17:5
And, now, Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine Own Self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.
John 20:28
Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"