5 Think about things in the same way that Christ Jesus thought:
6 He had the same nature as God.
He was completely equal with God.
But he did not try to keep hold of that.
7 Instead, he chose to leave heaven.
He took for himself the nature of a slave.
He was born as a human.
8 And when he lived as a man,
he made himself even more humble.
He obeyed God completely, so that he died.
He even died on a cross!
2:8The Romans fixed someone to a cross to die when they were guilty of something very bad. Christ agreed to die like that, but he had not done any wrong thing.
9 Because of that, God raised Jesus Christ to the most important place.
God gave him the name that is greater than every other name.
10 As a result, when people hear Jesus' name,
they must worship him.
Everyone will have to go down on their knees in front of him.
That includes everything that is in heaven,
everything on the earth and everything under the earth.
11 Everyone will say that Jesus Christ is Lord.
This will give great honour to God the Father.
2:11Verses 6-11 may have been a song that Paul knew.
