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Text -- Philippians 3:1-17 (NET)
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True and False Righteousness
3:1 Finally , my brothers and sisters , rejoice in the Lord ! To write this again is no trouble to me , and it is a safeguard for you .
3:2 Beware of the dogs , beware of the evil workers , beware of those who mutilate the flesh !
3:3 For we are the circumcision , the ones who worship by the Spirit of God , exult in Christ Jesus , and do not rely on human credentials
3:4 –though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials , I have more :
3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day , from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin , a Hebrew of Hebrews . I lived according to the law as a Pharisee .
3:6 In my zeal for God I persecuted the church . According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless .
3:7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ .
3:8 More than that , I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord , for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed , I regard them as dung !– that I may gain Christ ,
3:9 and be found in him , not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law , but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness – a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness .
3:10 My aim is to know him , to experience the power of his resurrection , to share in his sufferings , and to be like him in his death ,
3:11 and so, somehow , to attain to the resurrection from the dead .
Keep Going Forward
3:12 Not that I have already attained this– that is, I have not already been perfected – but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.
3:13 Brothers and sisters , I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead ,
3:14 with this goal in mind , I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus .
3:15 Therefore let those of us who are “perfect ” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise , God will reveal to you the error of your ways.
3:16 Nevertheless , let us live up to the standard that we have already attained .
3:17 Be imitators of me , brothers and sisters , and watch carefully those who are living this way , just as you have us as an example .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
PHILIPPIANS, THE EPISTLE TO THE |
Zeal |
Testimony |
PAPYRUS |
TEXT AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT |
Salvation |
Justification |
Obedience |
Works |
PHILIPPI |
Righteous |
SANCTIFICATION |
IMMORTAL; IMMORTALITY |
Wisdom |
Perfection |
Concision |
Grace of God |
Formalism |
Resurrection |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, VI-X |
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NET Notes: Phi 3:5 A Pharisee was a member of one of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism in the time of Jesus. There were more ...
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NET Notes: Phi 3:8 The word here translated “dung” was often used in Greek as a vulgar term for fecal matter. As such it would most likely have had a certain...
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NET Notes: Phi 3:10 Grk “to know him, the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings.”
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NET Notes: Phi 3:12 Grk “that for which I also was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.” The passive has been translated as active in keeping with contemporary Engli...
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NET Notes: Phi 3:15 Grk “reveal this to you.” The referent of the pronoun “this” is the fact that the person is thinking differently than Paul doe...
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