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You should think about things in the same way that Christ Jesus thought:

Christ had the same nature as God.
He was completely equal with God.
But he did not try to keep hold of that.
Instead, he chose to leave heaven.
He took for himself the nature of a slave.
He became like a human.

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

Who, being in very nature[a] God,(B)
    did not consider equality with God(C) something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing(D)
    by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,(E)
    being made in human likeness.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 2:6 Or in the form of
  2. Philippians 2:7 Or the form