Philippians 3
3
The Importance of Christ
1My brothers and sisters, be full of joy in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it will help you to be more ready. 2Watch out for those who do evil, who are like dogs, who demand to cut the body. 3We are the ones who are truly circumcised. We worship God through his Spirit, and our pride is in Christ Jesus. We do not put trust in ourselves or anything we can do, 4although I might be able to put trust in myself. If anyone thinks he has a reason to trust in himself, he should know that I have greater reason for trusting in myself. 5I was circumcised eight days after my birth. I am from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and my parents were Hebrews. I had a strict view of the law, which is why I became a Pharisee. 6I was so enthusiastic I tried to hurt the church. No one could find fault with the way I obeyed the law of Moses. 7Those things were important to me, but now I think they are worth nothing because of Christ. 8Not only those things, but I think that all things are worth nothing compared with the greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him, I have lost all those things, and now I know they are worthless trash. This allows me to have Christ 9and to belong to him. Now I am right with God, not because I followed the law, but because I believed in Christ. God uses my faith to make me right with him. 10I want to know Christ and the power that raised him from the dead. I want to share in his sufferings and become like him in his death. 11Then I have hope that I myself will be raised from the dead.
Continuing Toward Our Goal
12I do not mean that I am already as God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal, but I continue trying to reach it and to make it mine. Christ wants me to do that, which is the reason he made me his. 13Brothers and sisters, I know that I have not yet reached that goal, but there is one thing I always do. Forgetting the past and straining toward what is ahead, 14I keep trying to reach the goal and get the prize for which God called me through Christ to the life above.
15All of us who are spiritually mature should think this way, too. And if there are things you do not agree with, God will make them clear to you. 16But we should continue following the truth we already have.
17Brothers and sisters, all of you should try to follow my example and to copy those who live the way we showed you. 18Many people live like enemies of the cross of Christ. I have often told you about them, and it makes me cry to tell you about them now. 19In the end, they will be destroyed. They do whatever their bodies want, they are proud of their shameful acts, and they think only about earthly things. 20But our homeland is in heaven, and we are waiting for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven. 21By his power to rule all things, he will change our humble bodies and make them like his own glorious body.
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Philippians 3
3
1As to the rest, Achim b'Moshiach of mine, have simcha in Adoneinu.#3:1 1:25; 2:18,28,29; 4:4 To keep writing the zelba thing#3:1 1:4,18; 1:25; 2:2,17,18,28,29 to you is not an irksome bother to me, but for you it is a te'udat bitachon (safeguard).
2Be shomer and on your guard and watch out for those#3:2 unclean, prowling kelevim (dogs),#3:2 Ps 22:17 [16], 20; Rv 22:15 watch out for the evil po'alim (workers), watch out for the “circummutilators”.#3:2 Ga 6:12
3For we are the Bnei HaMilah,#3:3 Ro 2:29; Co 2:11-12 the ones whose avodas kodesh is by the Ruach Hakodesh#3:3 Jn 4:23; Ro 8:4 and whose kavod is in Moshiach Yehoshua and who take no bitachon in the basar,
4Even though I could be having bitachon also in the basar. If any other person thinks he has grounds to have bitachon in the basar, I have more:#3:4 2C 11:18—12:10
5Bris milah on the eighth day;#3:5 Lk 1:59; 2:21 from Bnei Yisroel by birth; of the tribe of Binyamin; a speaker of Lashon HaKodesh, Ivrit of Ivrit-speaking horim, a Hebrew of Hebrews;#3:5 2C 11:22 with regard to the Torah, from the kat haPerushim;#3:5 Ac 23:6; 26:5
6With regard to kin'a (zealousness), persecuting the Adat HaMoshiach;#3:6 Ac 8:3; 22:4; 26:9-11 with regard to tzidkat HaTorah,#3:6 3:9; Ro 2:27-29, as opposed to the tzidkat Hashem I was medakdekim bmitzvot unreproachable.#3:6 i.e., hair-splittingly and rigorously observant, glatt kosher, frumkait, shomer mitzvot Haredi
7But what things were revach (gain, profit) to me, these things I considered loss, on account of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.#3:7 Mt 13:44-46; Lk 14:33
8But even more so, I consider all to be loss on account of the excellency of the da'as of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu,#3:8 3:10; Jer 9:23-24 on account of whom I suffered the loss of all things and I consider them as nothing, in comparison, that I may gain Moshiach,#3:8 Ps 73:25
9And be found in him, not having my own Tzidkot (self-achieved righteousness, by definition a self-righteousness based on chumra stringency)#3:9 zokheh “merit” contra Dt 9:5-6; misinterpretation of the Torah from gezetz, but the Tzedek#3:9 Jer 33:16 through emunah#3:9 Ro 3:21-22 in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the Tzidkat Hashem based upon emunah.#3:9 Gn 15:6; Ro 9:30
10I want to have da'as of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and of the gevurah (power) of the Techiyas HaMoshiach and the deveykus (attachment to G-d) of Moshiachʼs yissurim (sufferings),#3:10 1:29; Ro 8:17; Ga 6:17 being formed into the mode of being of Moshiachʼs death,#3:10 death to the sinful Olam Hazeh and the unregenerate basar Ro 6:3-5
11If somehow I may attain to the Techiyas HaMesim.
12Not that already I obtained or already have been made shleimut, but I pursue this tachlis (final end, aim) that I may lay hold of#3:12 1Ti 6:12,19 cf. Pp 2:6 that for which I was laid hold of by Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.#3:12 Ac 9:5-6
13Achim b'Moshiach, I do not consider myself to have laid hold;#3:13 Pp 3:12 but one zach (thing) I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching forward to the things ahead,
14According to the tachlis I pursue the prize of the Shomayim Aliyah ascent of Hashem, the upward k'riah (call) of HaShem b'Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.#3:14 2Kgs 1:10; 2:12
15Therefore, as many as would be shleimut, let us think like this:#3:15 Pp 2:5-8 and if in anything your machshavot (thoughts) are different,#3:15 Mt 5:48; 2C 2:6 even this Hashem will reveal to you.
16Fort (nevertheless), let us march in line with what we have attained, let us hold to the same.#3:16 Ga 6:16
17Achim b'Moshiach, together be imitators of me.#3:17 1C 4:16; 11:1 Take note of the ones walking as you have a mofet in us.#3:17 2:5-30; 1Th 1:7; 1K 5:3
18For many, of whom I was often telling you, and now also I say with weeping, walk as oyvim (enemies) of Moshiachʼs Etz.#3:18 Dt 21:23; 27:26; Ga 3:13; 1C 1:23; Ga 6:12 cf Pp 2:8
19Their destined end#3:19 Ps 73:17 is churban (destruction, Gehinnom). Their g-d is their appetite,#3:19 Ro 16:18 and their kavod, what they glory in, is their bushah (shame). Their machshavot are set on the Olam Hazeh.#3:19 Ro 8:5-6
20But the torat haEzrakhut#3:20 see Pp 1:27 (citizenship) we conduct exists in Shomayim,#3:20 Ep 2:6; MJ 12:22; Ga 4:26; 6:16 from where also we eagerly await a Moshi'a (Savior), a Go'el, Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,
21Who will transfigure the basar of our humiliation into the demut of the mode of being of the guf kavod of Moshiach, according to the pe'ulah#3:21 Pp 1:6; 2:13 (action, work) of his ko'ach (power),#3:21 Ro 8:29; 1C 15:43-53 even to the subjecting of all things to himself.#3:21 1C 15:28
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