Philippians 3:3-13 (Today's New International Version)

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3 For it is we who are the circumcision,¹ we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus,² and who put no confidence in the flesh-- 4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence.³ If others think they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised⁴ on the eighth day, of the people of Israel,⁵ of the tribe of Benjamin,⁶ a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;⁷ 6 as for zeal,⁸ persecuting the church;⁹ as for righteousness based on the law,¹⁰ faultless. 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss¹¹ for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing¹² Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ¹³ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,¹⁴ but that which is through faith in^a Christ--the righteousness¹⁵ that comes from God on the basis of faith.¹⁶ 10 I want to know¹⁷ Christ--yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings,¹⁸ becoming like him in his death,¹⁹ 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection²⁰ from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal,²¹ but I press on to take hold²² of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.²³ 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind²⁴ and straining toward what is ahead,

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