{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/wnt/philippians/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:20:55.781Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WNT","book":"Philippians","bookSlug":"philippians","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"In conclusion, my brethren, be joyful in the Lord. For me to give you the same warnings as before is not irksome to me, while so far as you are concerned it is a safe precaution."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Beware of 'the dogs,' the  bad workmen, the self-mutilators."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For we are the true circumcision--we who  render to God a spiritual worship and make our boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in  outward ceremonies:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"although I myself might have some excuse for confidence in outward ceremonies. If any one else claims a right to trust in them, far more may I:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"circumcised, as I was, on the eighth day, a member of the race of Israel and of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew sprung from Hebrews; as to the Law a Pharisee;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"as to zeal, a persecutor of the Church; as to the righteousness which comes through Law, blameless."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Nay, I even reckon all things as  pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ--the righteousness which comes from God through faith."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection, and to share in His sufferings and die even as He died;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"in the hope that I may attain to  the resurrection from among the dead."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I do not say that I have already won the race or have already  reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's  heavenward call in Christ Jesus."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Therefore let all of us who are mature believers cherish these thoughts; and if in any respect you think differently, that also God will make clear to you."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But whatever be the point that we have already reached, let us persevere in the same course."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Brethren, vie with one another in imitating me, and carefully observe those who follow the example which we have set you."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For there are  many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted to earthly things."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of  a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject all things to Himself, will transform this body of our humiliation until it resembles His own glorious body."}],"citation":{"inline":"Philippians 3 (WNT)","markdown":"[Philippians 3](https://primebible.com/wnt/philippians/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WNT. https://primebible.com/wnt/philippians/3 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}