Philippians - Chapter 3 | New International Version

  • 1. Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
  • 2. Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh.
  • 3. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh--
  • 4. though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put 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; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;
  • 6. as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.
  • 7. But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
  • 8. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, 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 is through faith in Christ-- the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
  • 10. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
  • 11. and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
  • 12. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
  • 13. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
  • 14. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
  • 15. All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
  • 16. Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
  • 17. Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you.
  • 18. For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
  • 19. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things.
  • 20. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 21. who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
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