Philippians 3

1Finally, 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.Cross-references: Deut 12:18 · Deut 16:11 · 1Sam 2:1 · 1Chr 15:28 · 1Chr 16:10 · 1Chr 16:31 · +39 more

2Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.Cross-references: Ps 22:16 · Ps 22:20 · Ps 119:115 · Prov 26:11 · Isa 56:10 · Matt 7:6 · +25 more

3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;Cross-references: Gen 17:5 · Deut 10:16 · Deut 30:6 · Ps 105:3 · Isa 45:25 · Jer 4:4 · +19 more

4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:Cross-references: 2Cor 11:18

5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;Cross-references: Gen 14:13 · Gen 17:12 · Gen 40:15 · Gen 41:12 · 1Sam 4:6 · Jonah 1:9 · +9 more

6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.Cross-references: 2Sam 21:2 · 2Ki 10:16 · Matt 5:20 · Matt 23:25 · Mark 10:20 · Luke 1:6 · +13 more

7However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · Gen 19:26 · Job 2:4 · Prov 13:8 · Prov 23:23 · Matt 13:44 · +11 more

8Yes 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 ChristCross-references: Num 14:30 · 1Ki 14:10 · 2Ki 9:37 · Job 20:7 · Ps 126:6 · Isa 53:11 · +41 more

9and 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,Cross-references: Gen 7:23 · Deut 19:3 · Deut 27:26 · 1Ki 8:46 · 2Chr 32:25 · 2Chr 32:31 · +50 more

10that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,Cross-references: Matt 20:23 · John 5:21 · John 10:18 · John 11:25 · John 17:3 · Acts 2:31 · +24 more

11if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.Cross-references: Ps 49:7 · Luke 14:14 · Luke 20:35 · John 11:24 · Acts 23:6 · Acts 26:7 · +9 more

12Not 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.Cross-references: Job 17:9 · Ps 42:1 · Ps 63:1 · Ps 63:8 · Ps 84:2 · Ps 94:15 · +31 more

13Brothers, 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,Cross-references: Ps 27:4 · Ps 45:10 · Luke 9:62 · Luke 10:42 · Rom 15:23 · 1Cor 9:24 · +9 more

14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.Cross-references: Luke 16:16 · Rom 8:28 · Rom 9:23 · 1Cor 9:24 · 2Cor 4:17 · 1Thess 2:12 · +9 more

15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.Cross-references: Ps 25:8 · Prov 2:3 · Prov 3:5 · Isa 35:8 · Matt 5:48 · Luke 11:13 · +12 more

16Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.Cross-references: Rom 12:16 · Rom 15:5 · Gal 5:7 · Gal 6:16 · Eph 5:2 · Phil 1:27 · +7 more

17Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.Cross-references: Ps 37:37 · Rom 16:17 · 1Cor 4:16 · 1Cor 10:32 · Phil 4:9 · 1Thess 1:6 · +7 more

18For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,Cross-references: Ps 119:136 · Isa 8:11 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 13:17 · Dan 4:37 · Luke 19:41 · +21 more

19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:11 · 1Sam 2:29 · Ps 4:6 · Ps 17:14 · Ps 52:1 · Isa 56:10 · +43 more

20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,Cross-references: Ps 16:11 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 73:24 · Prov 15:24 · Isa 26:1 · Matt 6:19 · +27 more

21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.Cross-references: Isa 25:8 · Isa 26:19 · Hos 13:14 · Matt 17:2 · Matt 22:29 · Matt 28:18 · +11 more