He laid aside His privilege as God

 In your lives you must ·think and act like [have the same attitude as] Christ Jesus. 

·Christ himself was like God in everything [Who, being in the form of God].
    But he did not think that being equal with God was something to be ·used for his own benefit [or grasped; seized; held on to].

But he ·gave up his place with God and made himself nothing [emptied himself].
    He ·became like [took the form of] a ·servant [slave; bondservant]
    and was born ·as a man [in the likeness of humanity/men].

And ·when he was living [being found in appearance/likeness] as a ·man [human being],
    he humbled himself and was fully obedient to God,
    even ·when that caused his [to the point of] death—death on a cross.