and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,