Filipperne 3
1 Iøvrigt, mine Brødre, glæder Eder i Herren! At skrive Eder det Samme, er mig ikke til Besvær, men Eder til Bestyrkelse.2 Seer Hundene, seer de onde Arbeidere, seer Sønderskærelsen!3 Thi vi ere Omskærelsen, som tjene Gud i Aanden, og rose os i Christus Jesus og forlade os ikke paa Kjødet;4 endskjøndt ogsaa jeg har det, jeg kunde forlade mig paa, endog i Kjødet. Dersom en Anden synes, han kan forlade sig paa Kjødet, jeg meget mere.5 Jeg er omskaaren paa den ottende Dag, af Israels Slægt, af Benjamins Stamme, en Hebræer af Hebræere, en Pharisæer efter Loven,6 som forfulgte Menigheden med Nidkjærhed, som var ustraffelig efter Lovens Retfærdighed.7 Men hvad der var mig Vinding, det har jeg for Christi Skyld agtet for Tab;8 ja sandeligen, jeg agter og Alt for Tab mod Christi Jesu min Herrens KundskabsYpperlighed, for hvis Skyld jeg har lidt Tab paa Alt, og agter det Skarn at være, paa det jeg kan vinde Christus9 og findes i ham, saa jeg ikke har min Retfærdighed, den af Loven, men den ved Christi Tro, Retfærdigheden af Gud formedelst Troen,10 at jeg kan kjende ham og hans Opstandelses Kraft og hans Lidelsers Samfund, saa jeg bliver dannet til at ligne ham i hans Død,11 om jeg dog kunne naae til de Dødes Opstandelse.12 Ikke at jeg har allerede grebet det, eller er allerede fuldkommen; men jeg jager derefter, om jeg dog kan gribe det, efterdi jeg og er greben af Christus Jesus.13 Brødre! Jeg agter ikke mig selv at have grebet det.14 Men Eet gjør jeg: forglemmende, hvad der er bagved, og rækkende efter det, som er foran, iler jeg mod Maalet, til det Klenodie, som hører til Guds Kald herovenfra i Christus Jesus.15 Saa mange nu af os ere fuldkomne, maa have dette Sindelag; og ere I ei ganske saaledes sindede, da skal Gud ogsaa aabenbare Eder dette.16 Kun at vi, saa vidt vi ere komne, vandre efter den samme Regel, mene det Samme.17 Vorder mine Efterfølgere, Brødre! og agter paa dem, der vandre saaledes, som i have os til Exempel.18 Thi mange vandre, hvilke jeg ofte har sagt Eder og endnu siger med Taarer, at være Christi Korses Fjender,19 hvis Ende er Fordærvelse, hvis Gud er Bugen, og hvis Ære er i deres Skjændsel, hvilke tragte efter de jordiske Ting.20 Thi vort Borgerskab er i Himlene, hvorfra vi og forvente Frelseren den Herre Jesus Christus,21 som skal forvandle vort Fornedrelsens Legeme til at vorde ligedannet med hans Herlighedens Legeme, efter den Kraft, ved hvilken han og kan underlægge sig alle Ting.
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.