Philippians 2:6

Plain English Version

He was the same as God. He was just as important as God. But he didn’t reckon that he had to keep on being important, like God is.

Cross References

Matthew 1:23

“There will be a young woman that never slept with a man, like a woman does with her husband, but she will have a baby boy. That boy will have a special name, Immanuel. That name means God is with us.”

John 1:18

Nobody has ever seen God. But the special man, the one that is God, he is always with his father. He is the one that showed us what God is like.

John 10:30

My father and me, we are joined together, like we are one.”

John 10:33

The Jewish leaders said, “We don’t want to kill you for doing good things. But you are saying things against God. That is the reason why we have to kill you. You are just a man, but you say that you are God.”

John 14:28

Like I told you before, I am going away, but I will come back to you again. You see, I am going back to my father, and my father is much greater than I am. So if you really love me, you will be happy for me to go to my father.

John 14:9

Jesus said, “Look, Philip, I have been with you for a long time now, so you know me, right? Anyone that looks at me, can see my father. So you have seen the father. So you don’t have to ask me to show you the father.

John 17:5

And now, Father, when I come back to you, show people that I am great and powerful, just like I was when I was with you, before we made the world together.

John 20:28

Straight away, Thomas believed that Jesus was alive, and he said, “You are my leader, and you are my God.”

John 5:18

That made the Jewish leaders more angry, and they tried to find a way to kill him. They said to themselves, “This man breaks God’s law and works on our rest day. And he calls God his father too. That means he is saying that he is the same as God. He has to die.”

John 5:23

My father did that so that everyone will respect me, just like they respect him. If you don’t respect me, you are not respecting my father. He is the one that sent me to you.

1 Timothy 1:17

That shows that God is really great. He is the biggest boss, and he lives for ever, even though nobody can see him. He is the only one that is God. Everybody has to really praise him and say he is great, and they have to do that for ever and ever. That’s right.

1 Timothy 3:16

God shows us something about Jesus that is really true, and nobody can argue with it. He shows us that Jesus is really great, He came in a man’s body for people to see, but the Holy Spirit showed us that he was really from God. And God’s angel messengers saw him too. The people that believed in him told other people everywhere about him. They even went to other countries to tell people about him, and people all over the world believed in him. And God took him up into heaven.

Titus 2:13

He tells us to do these things now, while we wait for Jesus Christ to come back. He is our God, and he is the one that saves us. He will come back, and he will show everybody in the world that he is really great. Then we will be very happy.