Philippians
Chapter 3: v7 - Chapter 4: v1
Philippians 3:
7 - 21
7But whatever
was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What 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 9and 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. 10I want to
know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his
sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and
so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Pressing on Toward the Goal
12Not
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. 13Brothers, 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, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for
which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
15All 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. 16Only
let us live up to what we have already attained.
17Join
with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according
to the pattern we gave you. 18For, as I have
often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross
of Christ. 19Their destiny is destruction,
their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly
things. 20But our citizenship is in heaven. And
we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21who, 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.
Philippians 4 v1
1Therefore,
my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand
firm in the Lord, dear friends!
