Philippians 3:4–14

⁴although I could have confidence even in the flesh.

Righteousness Through Christ

If anyone else thinks to put confidence in the flesh, I can do so more: ⁵circumcised on the eighth day^d, from the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born from Hebrews, according to the law a Pharisee, ⁶according to zeal persecuting the church, according to the righteousness in the law being blameless. ⁷But whatever things were gain to me, these things I have considered loss because of Christ. ⁸More than that^e, I even consider all things to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them^* dung, in order that I may gain Christ ⁹and may be found in him, not having my righteousness which is from the law, but which is through faith in Christ,^f the righteousness from God on the basis of faith,^{g 10}so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, ¹¹if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. ¹²Not that I have already received this,^* or have already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.^{h 13}Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of it.^* But I do one thing, forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.