Philippians 2:6 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Although he was in the form of God and equal with God, he did not take advantage of this equality.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,

BBE:

To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

DBY:

who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

ERV:

who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God,

WEY:

Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

WBS:

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

WEB:

who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

YLT:

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,

Philippians 2:6 Cross References

XREF:

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 5:18 For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

John 10:33 The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."

John 14:28 "You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

2 Corinthians 4:4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:6 Who, being in the {d} form of God, {e} thought it not robbery to be {f} equal with God:
(d) Such as God himself is, and therefore God, for there is no one in all parts equal to God but God himself.
(e) Christ, that glorious and everlasting God, knew that he might rightfully and lawfully not appear in the base flesh of man, but remain with majesty fit for God: yet he chose rather to debase himself.
(f) If the Son is equal with the Father, then is there of necessity an equality, which Arrius that heretic denies: and if the Son is compared to the Father, then is there a distinction of persons, which Sabellius that heretic denies.

PNT:

2:6 Who, being in the form of God. He refers to the state of our Savior before he took human form. His form was divine. He had a glory with the father before the world was (Joh 17:5). See Joh 1:1 2Co 4:4 Heb 1:3, etc.
Thought it not robbery to be equal with God. The Revised Version says, Counted it not a prize. The meaning is not entirely clear, but probably is that Having a form of glory like God, he did not count it a prize which must be clung to tenaciously, especially when he appeared upon the earth, that he should be equal with God, that is, appear in a divine form, but was willing to lay aside his glory and make himself a servant.

WES:

2:6 Who being in the essential form - The incommunicable nature. Of God - From eternity, as he was afterward in the form of man; real God, as real man. Counted it no act of robbery - That is the precise meaning of the words, - no invasion of another's prerogative, but his own strict and unquestionable right. To be equal with God - the word here translated equal, occurs in the adjective form five or six times in the New Testament, Mt 20:12; Lu 6:34; Joh 5:18; Ac 11:17; Re 21:16. In all which places it expresses not a bare resemblance, but a real and proper equalitg. It here implies both the fulness and the supreme height of the Godhead; to which are opposed, he emptied and he humbled himself.

MHC:

2:5-11 The example of our Lord Jesus Christ is set before us. We must resemble him in his life, if we would have the benefit of his death. Notice the two natures of Christ; his Divine nature, and human nature. Who being in the form of God, partaking the Divine nature, as the eternal and only-begotten Son of God, Joh 1:1, had not thought it a robbery to be equal with God, and to receive Divine worship from men. His human nature; herein he became like us in all things except sin. Thus low, of his own will, he stooped from the glory he had with the Father before the world was. Christ's two states, of humiliation and exaltation, are noticed. Christ not only took upon him the likeness and fashion, or form of a man, but of one in a low state; not appearing in splendour. His whole life was a life of poverty and suffering. But the lowest step was his dying the death of the cross, the death of a malefactor and a slave; exposed to public hatred and scorn. The exaltation was of Christ's human nature, in union with the Divine. At the name of Jesus, not the mere sound of the word, but the authority of Jesus, all should pay solemn homage. It is to the glory of God the Father, to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord; for it is his will, that all men should honour the Son as they honour the Father, Joh 5:23. Here we see such motives to self-denying love as nothing else can supply. Do we thus love and obey the Son of God?

CONC:

Although Beginning Consider Count Counted Didn't Equal Equality Esteem Existed Existing Form Grasped Nature Object Oneself Rapine Reckon Regard Robbery Seem Subsisting Though Tightly Treasure

Although Beginning Consider Count Counted Equal Equality Existed Existing Form Grasped Nature Oneself Reckon Regard Robbery Seem Thought Tightly Treasure

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