Dec. 18, 2022

Php 3:1  Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 

Php 3:2  Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. 

Php 3:3  For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 

Php 3:4  though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 

Php 3:5  circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 

Php 3:6  as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. 

Php 3:7  But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 

Php 3:8  What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 

Php 3:9  and 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 on the basis of faith. 

Php 3:10  I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 

Php 3:11  and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.