Archives for March 28, 2007

Philippians 3:4b-14 (NRSV)

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Verse ⁴even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: Verse ⁵circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; Verse ⁶as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Verse ⁷Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. Verse ⁸More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

Verse ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. Verse ¹⁰I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, Verse ¹¹if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Verse ¹²Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Verse ¹³Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, Verse ¹⁴I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.