Who, being in very nature[a] God,(A)
    did not consider equality with God(B) something to be used to his own advantage;

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 2:6 Or in the form of

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];

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Though he was God,[a]
    he did not think of equality with God
    as something to cling to.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:6 Or Being in the form of God.

Though he was in the form of God,
he did not regard equality with God
something to be possessed by force.

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Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

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