Read Philippians 3:4b-14
If anyone
thinks they can trust in external ceremonies, I have even more reason to feel
that way. 5I
was circumcised when I was a week old. I am an Israelite by birth, of the tribe
of Benjamin, a pure-blooded Hebrew. As far as keeping the Jewish Law is
concerned, I was a Pharisee, 6and I was so zealous that I persecuted
the church. As far as a person can be righteous by obeying the commands of the
Law, I was without fault. 7But all those things that I might count
as profit I now reckon as loss for Christ’s sake. 8Not only those
things; I reckon everything as complete loss for the sake of what is so much
more valuable, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have
thrown everything away; I consider it all as mere refuse, so that I may gain
Christ 9and be completely united with him. I no longer have a
righteousness of my own, the kind that is gained by obeying the Law. I now have
the righteousness that is given through faith in Christ, the righteousness that
comes from God and is based on faith. 10All I want is to know Christ
and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and
become like him in his death, 11in the hope that I myself will be
raised from death to life.
12 I
do not claim that I have already succeeded or have already become perfect. I
keep striving to win the prize for which Christ Jesus has already won me to
himself. 13Of course, my brothers and sisters, I really do note
think that I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget
what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead. 14So I run
straight towards the goal in order to win the prize, which is God’s call
through Christ Jesus to the life above.
Think
All I want is to know Christ
and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and
become like him in his death, in the hope that I myself will be raised from
death to life.
- Philippians 3:10-11
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