腓立比書 3
以認識基督為至寶
1 最後，我的弟兄們，你們要靠著主喜樂。我寫這些話給你們，在我並不困難，對你們卻是妥當的。
2 你們要提防那些“狗”，提防作惡的，提防行割禮的。3 其實我們這些靠 神的靈來敬拜，在基督耶穌裡誇口而不倚靠肉體的人，才是受割禮的，4 雖然我有理由可以倚靠肉體。如果別人認為可以倚靠肉體，我就更加可以了；5 我第八天受割禮，屬於以色列民族便雅憫支派，是希伯來人所生的希伯來人。按著律法來說，我是個法利賽人；6 按著熱誠來說，我是迫害教會的；按著律法上的義來說，我是無可指摘的。7 然而以前對我有益的，現在因著基督的緣故，我都當作是有損的。8 不但這樣，我也把萬事當作是有損的，因為我以認識我主基督耶穌為至寶。為了他，我把萬事都拋棄了，看作廢物，為了要得著基督。9 並且得以在他裡面，不是有自己因律法而得的義，而是有因信基督而得的義，就是基於信心，從 神而來的義，10 使我認識基督和他復活的大能，並且在他所受的苦上有分，受他所受的死；
11 這樣，我也許可以從死人中復活。
向著目標竭力追求
12 這並不是說我已經得著了，已經完全了，而是竭力追求，好使我可以得著基督耶穌所以得著我的。13 弟兄們，我不以為自己已經得著了，我只有一件事，就是忘記背後，努力前面的事，14 向著目標竭力追求，為要得著 神在基督耶穌裡召我往上去得的獎賞。15 所以，我們中間凡是成熟的人，都應當這樣思想。即使你們不是這樣思想， 神也會把這事指示你們。
16 不過，我們到了甚麼程度，就要照著甚麼程度去行。
切望救主再臨
17 弟兄們，你們要一同效法我，也要留意那些照著我們給你們的榜樣而行的人。18 我常常告訴你們，現在又流著淚說，有許多人行事為人，是基督十字架的仇敵，19 他們的結局是滅亡，他們的神是自己的肚腹，他們以自己的羞辱為榮耀，所思想的都是地上的事。20 但我們是天上的公民，切望救主，就是主耶穌基督，從天上降臨；
21 他要運用那使萬有歸服自己的大能，改變我們這卑賤的身體，和他榮耀的身體相似。
Philippians 3
True and False Righteousness
1 Finally, my brothers and sisters,t rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
2 Beware of the dogs,s beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!t3 For we are the circumcision,t the ones who worship by the Spirit of God,s exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentialst4 – though mine too are significant.t If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials,t I have more: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.s6 In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.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!t – that I may gain Christ,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 faithfulnessts – a righteousness from God that is in factt based on Christ’st faithfulness.t10 My aim is to know him,t to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings,t and to be like him in his death,
11 and so, somehow,t to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Keep Going Forward
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.t13 Brothers and sisters,t I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded:t Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,14 with this goal in mind,t I strive toward the prize of the upward call of Godt in Christ Jesus.15 Therefore let those of us who are “perfect” embrace this point of view.ts If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.t
16 Nevertheless, let us live up to the standards that we have already attained.t
17 Be imitators of me,t brothers and sisters,t and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.18 For 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.19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.t20 But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21 who will transform these humble bodies of ourst into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
