Philippians 3 (NET)

Philippians 3:1¹Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 4:4Rom 5:11Jas 1:21 Pet 4:131 Thess 5:16Eph 6:10Joel 2:23Phil 4:8Ps 37:41 Pet 3:8

Philippians 3:2²Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:13Titus 1:16Rev 22:15Isa 56:10-112 Tim 3:1-6Gal 5:15Phil 3:19Ps 22:16Gal 5:6Matt 7:15

Philippians 3:3³For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentialsCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:11Deut 30:6Rom 7:6Gal 6:13-15Rom 8:15Gal 5:25Rom 2:25-29John 4:23-241 Pet 1:23-25Deut 10:16

Philippians 3:4⁴—though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:18-22

Philippians 3:5⁵I 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:22Rom 11:1Acts 23:6Acts 22:3Acts 26:4-5Gen 17:12John 7:21-24Luke 1:59Luke 2:211 Sam 4:6

Philippians 3:6⁶In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 1:13-14Acts 8:3Acts 26:9-10Acts 22:3-4Acts 26:5Matt 5:20Rom 9:31-321 Cor 15:91 Tim 1:132 Kgs 10:16

Philippians 3:7⁷But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 14:33Matt 16:26Matt 13:44-46Luke 14:26Prov 13:8Phil 3:8-10Luke 17:31-33Gen 19:17Gal 2:15-16Gal 5:2-5

Philippians 3:8⁸More 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,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:23-24Rom 8:18Acts 20:24Phil 3:7John 17:3Phil 3:102 Pet 1:31 Cor 2:2Matt 19:27-29Col 2:2-3

Philippians 3:9⁹and 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:211 Cor 1:30Gal 2:16Rom 4:13-15Rom 4:5-6Rom 1:17Rom 8:1Isa 53:11Rom 9:30-32Jer 23:6

Philippians 3:10¹⁰My 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,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 2:201 Pet 4:1-22 Tim 2:11-12Rom 8:17Rom 6:3-11Eph 1:19-211 Pet 4:13-141 John 2:3Phil 3:8Col 3:1

Philippians 3:11¹¹and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:35-36Rev 20:5Acts 23:6Acts 26:72 Cor 11:3Heb 11:351 Cor 9:221 Cor 9:272 Thess 2:3John 11:24

Philippians 3:12¹²Not 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:11-122 Pet 1:5-8Ps 138:8Hos 6:31 Pet 3:11-132 Cor 7:1Isa 51:1Heb 13:21Eph 1:4Phil 3:13-14

Philippians 3:13¹³Brothers 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,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 9:62Heb 12:1-2Phil 3:121 Cor 9:24-27Ps 27:4Phil 3:8Heb 6:1Phil 4:11-13Luke 10:42Phil 2:12

Philippians 3:14¹⁴with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 9:241 Pet 5:10Rev 3:212 Tim 4:7-8Rom 8:28-301 Thess 2:122 Pet 1:3Heb 3:11 Pet 1:3-41 Pet 1:13

Philippians 3:15¹⁵Therefore 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 7:171 Cor 2:6Gal 5:10Prov 2:3-6Jas 1:4-5Col 4:121 Cor 14:20Matt 5:48Col 1:28Isa 35:8

Philippians 3:16¹⁶Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard that we have already attained.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:6Rev 3:3Rev 2:4-5Gal 6:16Heb 10:38-39Phil 1:27Rom 15:5Phil 2:2Phil 4:22 Pet 2:10-20

Philippians 3:17¹⁷Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 4:91 Cor 4:161 Pet 5:31 Tim 4:122 Thess 3:72 Thess 3:9Heb 13:71 Cor 10:32-11:11 Thess 1:62 Thess 3:14

Philippians 3:18¹⁸For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:17Isa 8:11Gal 6:12Gal 1:7Gal 2:14Jer 13:171 Thess 4:62 Pet 2:10Eph 5:5-6Phil 1:15-16

Philippians 3:19¹⁹Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 16:18Rom 8:5-72 Pet 2:3Col 3:2Jude 1:12-132 Cor 11:152 Pet 2:12 Cor 11:12Hos 4:72 Pet 2:13

Philippians 3:20²⁰But our citizenship is in heaven—and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 2:19Col 3:1-32 Cor 4:18-5:1Heb 12:221 Pet 1:3-42 Tim 4:8Eph 2:61 Thess 1:102 Cor 5:82 Pet 3:12-14

Philippians 3:21²¹who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 3:2Col 3:41 Cor 15:42-56Rom 8:29John 11:24-26Isa 26:19Matt 28:18Matt 17:2Eph 1:19-20John 5:25-29