Philippians - Chapter 3 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.
  • 2. Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:
  • 3. for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:
  • 4. though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
  • 5. circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
  • 6. as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • 7. Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
  • 8. Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,
  • 9. and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, {cf15i even} that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
  • 10. that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
  • 11. if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
  • 12. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.
  • 13. Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing {cf15i I do}, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
  • 14. I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
  • 15. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:
  • 16. only, whereunto we have attained, by that same {cf15i rule} let us walk.
  • 17. Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
  • 18. For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, {cf15i that they are} the enemies of the cross of Christ:
  • 19. whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and {cf15i whose} glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
  • 20. For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 21. who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, {cf15i that it may be} conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
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