Philippians 3

CHAPTER 3

Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

¹Finally, my brothers, ^arejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

²Beware of the ^adogs! Beware of the ^bevil workers! Beware of the ¹mutilation!

³For ^awe are the ¹circumcision, who ^bworship ²in the Spirit of God and ^cboast in ^dChrist Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,

⁴although ^aI myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:

^5acircumcised the eighth day, of the ^bnation of Israel, of the ^ctribe of Benjamin, a ^dHebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, ^ea Pharisee;

⁶as to zeal, ^aa persecutor of the church; as to the ^brighteousness which is in the Law, found ^cblameless.

⁷But ^awhatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

⁸More than that, I count all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of ^1aknowing ^bChrist Jesus my Lord, ²for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ

⁹and be found in Him, not having ^aa righteousness of my own which is from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, ^bthe righteousness which is from God upon faith,

¹⁰that I may ^aknow Him and ^bthe power of His resurrection and ^1cthe fellowship of His sufferings, being ^dconformed to His death,

¹¹¹in order that I may ^aattain to the resurrection from the dead.

Pressing On Toward the Goal

¹²Not that I have already ^aobtained it or have already ^bbecome perfect, but I press on ¹so that I may ^clay hold of that ²for which also I ^dwas laid hold of by ^eChrist Jesus.

¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself as having laid hold of it yet, but one thing I do: ^aforgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

¹⁴I ^apress on toward the goal for the prize of the ^bupward call of God in ^cChrist Jesus.

¹⁵Let us therefore, as many as are ^1aperfect, think this way; and if in anything you ^bthink differently, ^cGod will reveal that also to you.

¹⁶However, let us keep ^1awalking in step with the same standard to which we have attained.

¹⁷Brothers, ^ajoin in following my example, and ^blook for those who walk according to the ^cpattern you have in us.

¹⁸For ^amany walk—of whom I often told you, and now tell you even ^bcrying—as enemies of ^cthe cross of Christ,

¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is their ^astomach and ^bglory is in their shame, who ^cset their thoughts on earthly things.

²⁰For ^aour ¹citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly ^bwait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹who will ^atransform ¹the body of our humble state into ^bconformity with ²the ^cbody of His glory, ^dby His working through which He is able to even ^esubject all things to Himself.