腓立比书 3

真正的义

1 弟兄们，我还有话说，你们要靠主喜乐。我把这话再写给你们，于我并不为难，于你们却是妥当。 2 应当防备犬类，防备作恶的，防备妄自行割的。 3 因为真受割礼的，乃是我们这以　神的灵敬拜、在基督耶稣里夸口、不靠着肉体的。 4 其实，我也可以靠肉体；若是别人想他可以靠肉体，我更可以靠着了。 5 我第八天受割礼；我是以色列族、便雅悯支派的人，是希伯来人所生的希伯来人。就律法说，我是法利赛人； 6 就热心说，我是逼迫教会的；就律法上的义说，我是无可指摘的。 7 只是我先前以为与我有益的，我现在因基督都当作有损的。 8 不但如此，我也将万事当作有损的，因我以认识我主基督耶稣为至宝。我为他已经丢弃万事，看作粪土，为要得着基督； 9 并且得以在他里面，不是有自己因律法而得的义，乃是有信基督的义，就是因信　神而来的义， 10 使我认识基督，晓得他复活的大能，并且晓得和他一同受苦，效法他的死， 11 或者我也得以从死里复活。

向着标竿直跑

12 这不是说我已经得着了，已经完全了；我乃是竭力追求，或者可以得着基督耶稣所以得着我的t。 13 弟兄们，我不是以为自己已经得着了；我只有一件事，就是忘记背后，努力面前的， 14 向着标竿直跑，要得　神在基督耶稣里从上面召我来得的奖赏。 15 所以我们中间，凡是完全人总要存这样的心；若在什么事上存别样的心，　神也必以此指示你们。 16 然而，我们到了什么地步，就当照着什么地步行。

17 弟兄们，你们要一同效法我，也当留意看那些照我们榜样行的人。 18 因为有许多人行事是基督十字架的仇敌。我屡次告诉你们，现在又流泪地告诉你们： 19 他们的结局就是沉沦；他们的神就是自己的肚腹。他们以自己的羞辱为荣耀，专以地上的事为念。 20 我们却是天上的国民，并且等候救主，就是主耶稣基督从天上降临。 21 他要按着那能叫万有归服自己的大能，将我们这卑贱的身体改变形状，和他自己荣耀的身体相似。

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.