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Philippians 3 (New American Standard)

The Goal of Life

1 Finally, my brethren, 1rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Beware of the 2dogs, beware of the 3evil workers, beware of the afalse circumcision ; 3 for 4we are the true bcircumcision, who 5worship in the Spirit of God and 6glory in 7Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh, 4 although 8I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more : 5 9circumcised the eighth day, of the 10nation of Israel, of the 11tribe of Benjamin, a 12Hebrew of Hebrews ; as to the Law, 13a Pharisee ; 6 as to zeal, 14a persecutor of the church ; as to the 15righteousness which is in the Law, found 16blameless. 7 But 17whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 More than that, I count all things to be loss cin view of the surpassing value of d18knowing 19Christ Jesus my Lord, efor whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having 20a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, 21the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may 22know Him and 23the power of His resurrection and f24the fellowship of His sufferings, being 25conformed to His death ; 11 gin order that I may 26attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already 27obtained it or have already 28become perfect, but I press on hso that I may 29lay hold of that ifor which also I 30was laid hold of by 31Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet ; but one thing I do: 32forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I 33press on toward the goal for the prize of the 34upward call of God in 35Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are j36perfect, have this attitude ; and if in anything you have a 37different attitude, 38God will reveal that also to you; 16 however, let us keep k39living by that same standard to which we have attained. 17 Brethren, 40join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the 41pattern you have in us. 18 For 42many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even 43weeping, that they are enemies of 44the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their l45appetite, and whose 46glory is in their shame, who 47set their minds on earthly things. 20 For 48our mcitizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly 49wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ ; 21 who will 50transform nthe body of our humble state into 51conformity with othe 52body of His glory, 53by the exertion of the power that He has even to 54subject all things to Himself.
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a. Philippians 3:2 - Lit "mutilation;" Gr "katatome"
b. Philippians 3:3 - Gr "peritome"
c. Philippians 3:8 - Lit "because of"
d. Philippians 3:8 - Lit "the knowledge of"
e. Philippians 3:8 - Lit "because of"
f. Philippians 3:10 - Or "participation in"
g. Philippians 3:11 - Lit "if somehow"
h. Philippians 3:12 - Lit "if I may even"
i. Philippians 3:12 - Or "because also"
j. Philippians 3:15 - Or "mature"
k. Philippians 3:16 - Lit "following in line"
l. Philippians 3:19 - Lit "belly"
m. Philippians 3:20 - Lit "commonwealth"
n. Philippians 3:21 - Or "our lowly body"
o. Philippians 3:21 - Or "His glorious body"
1. Philippians 3:1 - Phil 2:18; 4:4
2. Philippians 3:2 - Ps 22:16, 20; Gal 5:15; Rev 22:15
3. Philippians 3:2 - 2 Cor 11:13
4. Philippians 3:3 - Rom 2:29; 9:6; Gal 6:15
5. Philippians 3:3 - Gal 5:25
6. Philippians 3:3 - Rom 15:17; Gal 6:14
7. Philippians 3:3 - Rom 8:39; Phil 1:1; 3:12
8. Philippians 3:4 - 2 Cor 5:16; 11:18
9. Philippians 3:5 - Luke 1:59
10. Philippians 3:5 - Rom 11:1; 2 Cor 11:22
11. Philippians 3:5 - Rom 11:1
12. Philippians 3:5 - Rom 11:1; 2 Cor 11:22
13. Philippians 3:5 - Acts 22:3; 23:6; 26:5
14. Philippians 3:6 - Acts 8:3; 22:4, 5; 26:9-11
15. Philippians 3:6 - Phil 3:9
16. Philippians 3:6 - Phil 2:15
17. Philippians 3:7 - Luke 14:33
18. Philippians 3:8 - Jer 9:23f; John 17:3; Eph 4:13; Phil 3:10; 2 Pet 1:3
19. Philippians 3:8 - Rom 8:39; Phil 1:1; 3:12
20. Philippians 3:9 - Rom 10:5; Phil 3:6
21. Philippians 3:9 - Rom 9:30; 1 Cor 1:30
22. Philippians 3:10 - Jer 9:23f; John 17:3; Eph 4:13; Phil 3:8; 2 Pet 1:3
23. Philippians 3:10 - Rom 6:5
24. Philippians 3:10 - Rom 8:17
25. Philippians 3:10 - Rom 6:5; 8:36; Gal 6:17
26. Philippians 3:11 - Acts 26:7; 1 Cor 15:23; Rev 20:5f
27. Philippians 3:12 - 1 Cor 9:24f; 1 Tim 6:12, 19
28. Philippians 3:12 - 1 Cor 13:10
29. Philippians 3:12 - 1 Tim 6:12, 19
30. Philippians 3:12 - Acts 9:5f
31. Philippians 3:12 - Rom 8:39; Phil 1:1; 3:3, 8
32. Philippians 3:13 - Luke 9:62
33. Philippians 3:14 - 1 Cor 9:24; Heb 6:1
34. Philippians 3:14 - Rom 8:28; 11:29; 2 Tim 1:9
35. Philippians 3:14 - Phil 3:3
36. Philippians 3:15 - Matt 5:48; 1 Cor 2:6
37. Philippians 3:15 - Gal 5:10
38. Philippians 3:15 - John 6:45; Eph 1:17; 1 Thess 4:9
39. Philippians 3:16 - Gal 6:16
40. Philippians 3:17 - 1 Cor 4:16; 11:1; Phil 4:9
41. Philippians 3:17 - 1 Pet 5:3
42. Philippians 3:18 - 2 Cor 11:13
43. Philippians 3:18 - Acts 20:31
44. Philippians 3:18 - Gal 6:14
45. Philippians 3:19 - Rom 16:18; Titus 1:12
46. Philippians 3:19 - Rom 6:21; Jude 13
47. Philippians 3:19 - Rom 8:5f; Col 3:2
48. Philippians 3:20 - Eph 2:19; Phil 1:27; Col 3:1; Heb 12:22
49. Philippians 3:20 - 1 Cor 1:7
50. Philippians 3:21 - 1 Cor 15:43-53
51. Philippians 3:21 - Rom 8:29; Col 3:4
52. Philippians 3:21 - 1 Cor 15:43, 49
53. Philippians 3:21 - Eph 1:19
54. Philippians 3:21 - 1 Cor 15:28
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