Philippians 3:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I count

Philippians 3:8

Philippians 1:18

Philippians 4:11

Forgetting

Luke 9:62

2 Corinthians 5:16

Hebrews 6:1

And reaching

Bible References

I count

More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as refuse, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him;

But what of that? Only that in some way or other, either with assumed or with real earnestness, Christ is being made known; and at that I rejoice.

Do not think that I am saying this under the pressure of want. For I, however I am placed, have learned to be independent of circumstances.

Forgetting

But Jesus answered: "No one who looks back, after putting his hand to the plough, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."

For ourselves, then, from this time forward, we refuse to regard any one from the world's standpoint. Even if we once thought of Christ from the standpoint of the world, yet now we do so no longer.

Therefore, let us leave behind the elementary teaching about the Christ and press on to perfection, not always laying over again a foundation of repentance for a lifeless formality, of faith in God--

And reaching

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

But now there are no further openings for me in these parts, and I have for several years been longing to come to you whenever I may be going to Spain.

Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,