5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

6 who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,

7 but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.

8 More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.