Have this same attitude in yourselves which was in Christ Jesus [look to Him as your example in selfless humility], (6) 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]; (7) but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing