Oct. 18
Philippians 3
Php 3:1 Finally, my
brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me
indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
Php 3:2 Beware of the
dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
Php 3:3 For we are the
circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ
Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
Php 3:4 though I myself
might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that
he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
Php 3:5 circumcised the
eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a
Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
Php 3:6 concerning
zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is
in the law, found blameless.
Php 3:7 However, what
things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
Php 3:8 Yes most
certainly, 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 count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain
Christ
Php 3:9 and be found in
him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law,
but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is
from God by faith;
Php 3:10 that I may
know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of
his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
Php 3:11 if by any
means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Php 3:12 Not that I
have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if
it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold
of by Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13 Brothers, I
don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do.
Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the
things which are before,
Php 3:14 I press on
toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let us
therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you
think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
Php 3:16 Nevertheless,
to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same
rule. Let us be of the same mind.
Php 3:17 Brothers, be
imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as
you have us for an example.
Php 3:18 For many walk,
of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the
enemies of the cross of Christ,
Php 3:19 whose end is
destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their
shame, who think about earthly things.
Php 3:20 For our
citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ;
Php 3:21 who will
change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his
glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject
all things to himself.