Paul lays down his entire religious resume - Jewish pedigree, legal blamelessness, elite credentials - and declares it all worthless compared to knowing Christ. One of the most personal chapters in Paul’s letters.
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Lyrics
Finally my brothers rejoice in the Lord To write the same things to you to me indeed is not tiresome But for you it is safe
However I consider those things that were gain to me As a loss for Christ yes most certainly And I count all things to be a loss for the excellency Of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord For whom I suffered the loss of all things
And count them nothing but refuse that I may gain Christ And be found in him not having a righteousness of my own That which is of the law but that which is through faith in Christ The righteousness which is from God by faith
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection And the fellowship of his sufferings Becoming conformed to his death
Not that I have already obtained or am already made perfect But I press on that I may take hold of that For which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus Brothers I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold
But one thing I do forgetting the things which are behind And stretching forward to the things which are before I press on towards the goal for the prize Of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus
Our citizenship is in heaven from where we also wait For a Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Who will change the body of our humiliation To be conformed to the body of his glory
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Philippians 3 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.