Verse of the Day

⁶ who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God^(A)
as something to be exploited.^[a]
7 Instead he emptied himself^(B)
by assuming the form of a servant,^(C)
taking on the likeness of humanity.^(D)
And when he had come as a man,
⁸ he humbled himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death –
even to death on a cross.^(E)