Thematic Bible

Philippians 3:1

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.

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Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those mutilators of the body.

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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,

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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:

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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;

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as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

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But whatever was gain to me, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

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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

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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,

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that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death;

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in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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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.

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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,

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I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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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.

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Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

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Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who live according to the pattern you have in us.

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For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

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Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

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But our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

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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.