Philippians 3
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Knowing Christ
1In addition, my brothers and sisters, rejoice # 3:1 Rm 12:12; 2Co 6:10; Php 1:18 in the Lord. To write to you again about this is no trouble for me and is a safeguard for you.
2Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil # 3:2 2Co 13:7 workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh. 3For we are the circumcision, # 3:3 Gl 6:15 the ones who worship by the Spirit # 3:3 Rm 8:4; Gl 5:25; 1Tm 3:16 of God, boast in Christ Jesus, # 3:3 Rm 16:7; Eph 2:6; Php 1:1,15; 1Pt 5:14 and do not put confidence in the flesh — 4although I have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised the eighth day; # 3:5 Gn 17:12,25; 21:4; Lv 12:3; Lk 1:59; 2:21 of the nation of Israel, # 3:5 Rm 9:6 of the tribe of Benjamin, # 3:5 Ps 68:27 a Hebrew born of Hebrews; regarding the law, # 3:5 Ac 5:34; 22:3; Gl 1:14; 5:4 a Pharisee; 6regarding zeal, # 3:6 Rm 10:2 persecuting # 3:6 Ac 22:2–5; 26:9–11; 1Co 15:9; Gl 1:13; 1Tm 1:13; 2Tm 3:12 the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, # 3:6 Rm 3:21; 9:31; 10:4–5; Gl 2:21; 3:21 blameless. # 3:6 Lk 1:6; Rm 7:9–10
7But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. 8More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value # 3:8 Php 2:3 of knowing Christ # 3:8 Jn 17:3; 2Co 4:6; Gl 4:8–9; Php 1:15; Col 2:2; 1Jn 4:8 Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ # 3:8 1Pt 3:1 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, # 3:9 Rm 10:5 but one that is through faith in Christ # 3:9 Or through the faithfulness of Christ — the righteousness from God based on faith. # 3:9 Rm 3:22; 10:4; Gl 2:21; Heb 11:7 10My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, # 3:10 Rm 8:17; 2Co 1:5–7; Col 1:24; 1Pt 4:13; 5:1,9 being conformed to his death, # 3:10 Rm 6:5; 8:36; 2Co 4:7–12; 12:9–10; Gl 6:17 11assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.
Reaching Forward to God’s Goal
12Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold # 3:12 Jn 1:5; 12:35; Rm 9:30; 1Co 9:24; Eph 3:18 of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 13Brothers and sisters, I do not # 3:13 Other mss read not yet consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind # 3:13 Lk 9:62; 17:31 and reaching forward to what is ahead, 14I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly # 3:14 Or upward call in Christ Jesus. # 3:14 Rm 16:7; Eph 2:6; Php 1:1,15; 1Pt 5:14 15Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal # 3:15 Lk 10:21 this also to you. 16In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained. 17Join in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and pay careful attention to those who live according to the example you have in us. 18For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross # 3:18 Lk 23:26; 1Co 1:17; Gl 6:12 of Christ. 19Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory # 3:19 Lk 14:10; Jn 5:41,44; 8:50,54; 12:43; Rm 9:4; 1Co 11:15; 2Co 6:8; 1Th 2:6 is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things. 20Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. 21He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of his glorious # 3:21 1Pt 5:4 body, # 3:21 1Co 6:13; 1Jn 3:2 by the power that enables him to subject everything to himself.
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Philippians 3
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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 Yn 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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