5 Want hierdie gesindheid moet in julle wees wat ook in Christus Jesus was.

6 Hy, wat in die gestalte van God was, het dit geen roof geag om aan God gelyk te wees nie,

7 maar het Homself ontledig deur die gestalte van 'n dienskneg aan te neem en aan die mense gelyk geword;

8 en in gedaante gevind as 'n mens, het Hy Homself verneder deur gehoorsaam te word tot die dood toe, ja, die dood van die kruis.

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

6 To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

7 But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

8 And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.