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<span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Not that I have already obtained <i>it</i> or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of <i>it</i> yet; but one thing <i>I do:</i> forgetting what <i>lies</i> behind and reaching forward to what <i>lies</i> ahead, <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>however, let us keep living by that same <i> standard</i> to which we have attained. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, <i>that they are</i> enemies of the cross of Christ, <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>whose end is destruction, whose god is <i>their</i> appetite, and <i>whose</i> glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/philippians/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/philippians/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/philippians/3.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/philippians/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/philippians/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/philippians/3.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/philippians/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/philippians/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_6_finally_my_brethren.htm">September 6. "Finally, My Brethren, Rejoice in the Lord" (Phil. Iii. 1). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord" (Phil. iii. 1). There is no spiritual value in depression. One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections. The longer you look at evil the more it mesmerizes and defiles you into its own likeness. Lay it down at the cross, accept the cleansing blood, reckon yourself dead to the thing that was wrong, and then rise up and count yourself as if you were another man and no longer the same person; and then, identifying <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_6_finally_my_brethren.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/may_25_that_i_may.htm">May 25. "That I May Know Him" (Phil. Iii. 10). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"That I may know Him" (Phil. iii. 10). Better to know Jesus Himself than to know the truth about Him for the deep things of God as they are revealed by the Holy Ghost. It was Paul's great desire, "That I may know Him," not about Him, not the mysteries of the wonderful world, of the deeper and higher teachings of God, but to enter into the Holy of Holies, where Christ is, where the Shekinah is shining and making the place glorious with the holiness of God, and then to enter into the secret of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/may_25_that_i_may.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/january_27_this_one_thing.htm">January 27. "This one Thing I Do" (Phil. Iii. 13). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"This one thing I do" (Phil. iii. 13). One of Satan's favorite employees is the switchman. He likes nothing better than to side-track one of God's express trains, sent on some blessed mission and filled with the fire of a holy purpose. Something will come up in the pathway of the earnest soul, to attract its attention and occupy its strength and thought. Sometimes it is a little irritation and provocation. Sometimes it is some petty grievance we stop to pursue or adjust. Sometimes it is somebody <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/january_27_this_one_thing.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/may_15_i_press_toward.htm">May 15. "I Press Toward the Mark" (Phil. Iii. 14). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I press toward the mark" (Phil. iii. 14). We have thought much about what we have received. Let us think of the things we have not received, of some of the vessels that have not yet been filled, of some of the places in our life that the Holy Ghost has not yet possessed for God, and signalized by His glory and His presence. Shall the coming months be marked by a diligent, heart-searching application of "the rest of the oil," to the yet unoccupied possibilities of our life and service? Have we known <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/may_15_i_press_toward.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/twenty_third_sunday_after_trinity.htm">Twenty Third Sunday after Trinity Enemies of the Cross of Christ and the Christian's Citizenship in Heaven. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: Philippians 3, 17-21. 17 Brethren, be ye imitators [followers] together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample. 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. 20 For our citizenship [conversation] is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 who <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/twenty_third_sunday_after_trinity.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. III</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/laid_hold_of_and_laying.htm">Laid Hold of and Laying Hold</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended of Christ Jesus.'--PHIL. iii. 12. 'I was laid hold of by Jesus Christ.' That is how Paul thinks of what we call his conversion. He would never have 'turned' unless a hand had been laid upon him. A strong loving grasp had gripped him in the midst of his career of persecution, and all that he had done was to yield to the grip, and not to wriggle out of it. The strong expression suggests, as it seems to me, the suddenness <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/laid_hold_of_and_laying.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_rule_of_the_road.htm">The Rule of the Road</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule.'--PHIL. iii. 16. Paul has just been laying down a great principle--viz. that if the main direction of a life be right, God will reveal to a man the points in which he is wrong. But that principle is untrue and dangerous, unless carefully guarded. It may lead to a lazy tolerance of evil, and to drawing such inferences as, 'Well! it does not much matter about strenuous effort, if we are right at bottom it will all come <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_rule_of_the_road.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_souls_perfection.htm">The Soul's Perfection</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.'--PHIL. iii. 15. 'As many as be perfect'; and how many may they be? Surely a very short bede-roll would contain their names; or would there be any other but the Name which is above every name upon it? Part of the answer to such a question may be found in observing that the New Testament very frequently uses the word to express not so much the idea of moral completeness <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_souls_perfection.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/warnings_and_hopes.htm">Warnings and Hopes</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them which so walk even as ye have us for an ensample. For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is perdition, whose God is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/warnings_and_hopes.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/preparing_to_end.htm">Preparing to End</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe. 2. Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision: 3. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.'--PHIL. iii. 1-3 (R.V.). The first words of the text show that Paul was beginning to think of winding up his letter, and the preceding context also suggests that. The <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/preparing_to_end.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/saving_knowledge.htm">Saving Knowledge</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, becoming conformed unto His death; if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.'--PHIL. iii. 10-11 (R.V.). We have seen how the Apostle was prepared to close his letter at the beginning of this chapter, and how that intention was swept away by the rush of new thoughts. His fervid faith caught fire when he turned to think of what he had lost, and how infinitely more he had gained in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/saving_knowledge.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/philippians/3-7.htm">Philippians 3:7 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/philippians/3-7.htm">Philippians 3:7 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/philippians/3-7.htm">Philippians 3:7 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/philippians/3-7.htm">Philippians 3:7 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/philippians/3-7.htm">Philippians 3:7 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/philippians/3-7.htm">Philippians 3:7 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/philippians/3-7.htm">Philippians 3:7 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../philippians/3-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Philippians 3:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Philippians 3:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../philippians/3-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Philippians 3:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Philippians 3:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/philippians/3-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>