Because he had a perfect character, a perfectly God-like way of thinking, Jesus was "in the form of God". Because of this, it was not "robbery" for him to think or know that in this sense he was one with God. The N.I.V. gives a different translation of this phrase, saying that Jesus did not consider equality with God "something to be grasped at".
Kwa kuwa alikuwa na tabia timilifu, mwendo wa ukamilifu kama Mungu kwa kuwaza, Yesu alikuwa"yuna namna ya Mungu".Kwa sababu hii hakuona kule kuwaza au kujua ya kwamba kwa maana hii alikuwa mmoja pamoja na Mungu. B.H.N. inatoa tafsiri tofauti kwa fungu hili la maneno ikisema lakini hakufikiri kwa kule kuwa sawa na Mungu ni"kitu cha kung’ang’ania kwa nguvu".