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The mind of the Messiah

This is how you should think among yourselves—with the mind that you have because you belong to the Messiah, Jesus:

Who, though in God’s form, did not
regard his equality with God
as something he ought to exploit.
Instead, he emptied himself,
and received the form of a slave,
being born in the likeness of humans.
And then, having human appearance,

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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