腓立比書 3

真正的義

1 弟兄們，我還有話說，你們要靠主喜樂。我把這話再寫給你們，於我並不為難，於你們卻是妥當。 2 應當防備犬類，防備作惡的，防備妄自行割的。 3 因為真受割禮的，乃是我們這以上帝的靈敬拜、在基督耶穌裏誇口、不靠著肉體的。 4 其實，我也可以靠肉體；若是別人想他可以靠肉體，我更可以靠著了。 5 我第八天受割禮；我是以色列族、便雅憫支派的人，是希伯來人所生的希伯來人。就律法說，我是法利賽人； 6 就熱心說，我是逼迫教會的；就律法上的義說，我是無可指摘的。 7 只是我先前以為與我有益的，我現在因基督都當作有損的。 8 不但如此，我也將萬事當作有損的，因我以認識我主基督耶穌為至寶。我為他已經丟棄萬事，看作糞土，為要得著基督； 9 並且得以在他裏面，不是有自己因律法而得的義，乃是有信基督的義，就是因信上帝而來的義， 10 使我認識基督，曉得他復活的大能，並且曉得和他一同受苦，效法他的死， 11 或者我也得以從死裏復活。

向著標竿直跑

12 這不是說我已經得著了，已經完全了；我乃是竭力追求，或者可以得著基督耶穌所以得著我的t。 13 弟兄們，我不是以為自己已經得著了；我只有一件事，就是忘記背後，努力面前的， 14 向著標竿直跑，要得上帝在基督耶穌裏從上面召我來得的獎賞。 15 所以我們中間，凡是完全人總要存這樣的心；若在甚麼事上存別樣的心，上帝也必以此指示你們。 16 然而，我們到了甚麼地步，就當照著甚麼地步行。

17 弟兄們，你們要一同效法我，也當留意看那些照我們榜樣行的人。 18 因為有許多人行事是基督十字架的仇敵。我屢次告訴你們，現在又流淚地告訴你們： 19 他們的結局就是沉淪；他們的神就是自己的肚腹。他們以自己的羞辱為榮耀，專以地上的事為念。 20 我們卻是天上的國民，並且等候救主，就是主耶穌基督從天上降臨。 21 他要按著那能叫萬有歸服自己的大能，將我們這卑賤的身體改變形狀，和他自己榮耀的身體相似。

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.