5 In fact, let this mindset be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in God’s form, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,*Since Jehovah the Son was (and is) equally God, the point appears to be that He did not insist on hanging on to His prerogatives. 7 but divested Himself, taking a slave’s form, coming to be in the likeness of men.*Note that to be a human being is to be a slave. We are born slaves, live slaves and die slaves. We are born slaves to self, sin and death (with Satan behind the scenes); Christ offers us the option of being slaves to God, good and life. You can’t stop being a slave, but you can choose your owner.