Philippians - Chapter 3 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
  • 2. Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
  • 3. For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh--
  • 4. though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
  • 5. circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
  • 6. as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness, under the law blameless.
  • 7. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
  • 8. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
  • 9. and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith--
  • 10. that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
  • 11. that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
  • 12. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
  • 13. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
  • 14. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
  • 15. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
  • 16. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.
  • 17. Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
  • 18. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.
  • 19. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
  • 20. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 21. who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
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