Philippians 3:12

Overview - Philippians 3
He warns them to beware of the false teachers of the circumcision;
shewing that himself has greater cause than they to trust in the righteousness of the law;
which notwithstanding he counts as dung and loss, to gain Christ and his righteousness;
12 therein acknowledging his own imperfection.
15 He exhorts them to be thus minded;
17 and to imitate him,
18 and to decline the ways of carnal Christians.
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Philippians 3:12  (King James Version)
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
 


I had
Philippians 3:13 Philippians 3:16 ; Psalms 119:5 Psalms 119:173-176 ; Romans 7:19-24 ; Galatians 5:17 ; 1 Timothy 6:12 ; James 3:2

already perfect
Job 17:9 ; Psalms 138:8 ; Proverbs 4:18 ; 1 Corinthians 13:10 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ; 13:9 Ephesians 4:12
Hebrews 12:23 ; 13:21 1 Peter 5:10 ; 2 Peter 1:5-8 ; 3:18

I follow
14 ; Psalms 42:1 ; Psalms 63:1-3 Psalms 63:8 84:2 94:15 Isaiah 51:1 ; Hosea 6:3 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:15
1 Timothy 5:10 ; 6:11 Hebrews 12:14 ; 1 Peter 3:11-13

that I
14 ; 1 Timothy 6:12

apprehended
Psalms 110:2 Psalms 110:3 ; Acts 9:3-6 Acts 9:15 ; Ephesians 1:4 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:13