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Philippians 2:5 KJV
Philippians · chapter 2 · verse 5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:Philippians 2:5 · King James Version
What Philippians 2:5 means
This is the hinge. Paul has just asked a quarrelling church to count others better than themselves, and now he points at the example. The next verses describe Christ emptying himself as far as a cross. The mind in view is a willingness to go down.
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Philippians 2:5 in context
3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
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- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
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The apostle proceeds in this chapter where he left off in the last, with further exhortations to Christian duties. He presses them largely to like-mindedness and lowly-mindedness, in conformity to the example of the Lord Jesus, the great pattern of humility and love. Here we may observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11