Does Philippians 2:6 Say That Jesus Is Equal To God?
(ESV) “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God, a thing to be grasped, / Or a thing to be held on to for advantage” but emptied himself,
(NIV) “Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;” rather, he made himself nothing,
(NLV) “Jesus has always been as God is. But He did not hold to His rights as God.” He put aside everything that belonged to Him,