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, |
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, |
Who, being in the very nature (or, in the form of) God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, |
Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, |
[This is the mind] which is also in Christ Jesus, who has always been and at present continues to subsist in that mode of being in which He gives outward expression of His essential nature, that of absolute deity, which expression comes from and is truly representative of His inner being [that of absolute deity], and who did not after weighing the facts, consider it a treasure to be clutched and retained at all hazards, this being on an equality with deity [in the expression of the divine essence], |
For He, who had always been God by nature, did not cling to His privileges as God’s equal, |
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, |
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