腓立比书 3

以认识基督为至宝

1 最后，我的弟兄们，你们要靠着主喜乐。我写这些话给你们，在我并不困难，对你们却是妥当的。2 你们要提防那些“狗”，提防作恶的，提防行割礼的。3 其实我们这些靠 神的灵来敬拜，在基督耶稣里夸口而不倚靠肉体的人，才是受割礼的，4 虽然我有理由可以倚靠肉体。如果别人认为可以倚靠肉体，我就更加可以了；5 我第八天受割礼，属于以色列民族便雅悯支派，是希伯来人所生的希伯来人。按着律法来说，我是个法利赛人；6 按着热诚来说，我是迫害教会的；按着律法上的义来说，我是无可指摘的。7 然而以前对我有益的，现在因着基督的缘故，我都当作是有损的。8 不但这样，我也把万事当作是有损的，因为我以认识我主基督耶稣为至宝。为了他，我把万事都抛弃了，看作废物，为了要得着基督。9 并且得以在他里面，不是有自己因律法而得的义，而是有因信基督而得的义，就是基于信心，从 神而来的义，10 使我认识基督和他复活的大能，并且在他所受的苦上有分，受他所受的死；11 这样，我也许可以从死人中复活。
向着目标竭力追求12 这并不是说我已经得着了，已经完全了，而是竭力追求，好使我可以得着基督耶稣所以得着我的。13 弟兄们，我不以为自己已经得着了，我只有一件事，就是忘记背后，努力前面的事，14 向着目标竭力追求，为要得着 神在基督耶稣里召我往上去得的奖赏。15 所以，我们中间凡是成熟的人，都应当这样思想。即使你们不是这样思想， 神也会把这事指示你们。16 不过，我们到了甚么程度，就要照着甚么程度去行。
切望救主再临17 弟兄们，你们要一同效法我，也要留意那些照着我们给你们的榜样而行的人。18 我常常告诉你们，现在又流着泪说，有许多人行事为人，是基督十字架的仇敌，19 他们的结局是灭亡，他们的神是自己的肚腹，他们以自己的羞辱为荣耀，所思想的都是地上的事。20 但我们是天上的公民，切望救主，就是主耶稣基督，从天上降临；21 他要运用那使万有归服自己的大能，改变我们这卑贱的身体，和他荣耀的身体相似。

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.