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Philippians 2:4–6

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4Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, vbut also for the interests of others. w

Christ’s Humility and Exaltation

5Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus,

6who, existing in the form of God,

did not consider equality with God x

as something to be used for His own advantage. y

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Philippians 2:6: … who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Footnotes

  1. y2:6 Or to be grasped, or to be held on to

Cross references

  1. v2:4 Rm 15:1
  2. w2:4 Lv 19:18; Mk 10:45; 12:31; 1Co 10:24; 13:5; Php 2:21
  3. x2:6 Is 9:6; Jn 1:1, 14; 20:28; Rm 9:5; Col 1:15–16; Ti 2:13; Heb 1:2–13; 2Pt 1:1; 1Jn 4:14–15

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God,

did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Everyone should look not to his own interests, but rather to the interests of others.

Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,

who, existing in the form of God,

did not consider equality with God

as something to be exploited.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.

You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

Though he was God,

he did not think of equality with God

as something to cling to.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

each of you not looking out for your own interests, but also each of you for the interests of others.

Think this in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

who, existing in the form of God,

did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped,

KJV 1900King James Version

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: