Thematic Bible
Philippians 3:1 (show verse)
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
Philippians 3:2 (show verse)
Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those mutilators of the body.
Philippians 3:3 (show verse)
For we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh,
Philippians 3:4 (show verse)
though I myself have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:
Philippians 3:5 (show verse)
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6 (show verse)
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
Philippians 3:7 (show verse)
But whatever was gain to me, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
Philippians 3:8 (show verse)
More than that, I count everything to be loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Philippians 3:9 (show verse)
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christthe righteousness that comes from God and is by faith,
Philippians 3:10 (show verse)
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death;
Philippians 3:11 (show verse)
in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:12 (show verse)
Not that I have already obtained this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Philippians 3:13 (show verse)
Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Philippians 3:14 (show verse)
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15 (show verse)
Let those of us who are mature have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you.
Philippians 3:16 (show verse)
Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
Philippians 3:17 (show verse)
Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who live according to the pattern you have in us.
Philippians 3:18 (show verse)
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Philippians 3:19 (show verse)
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
Philippians 3:20 (show verse)
But our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Philippians 3:21 (show verse)
who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.