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Filipenses 3
Dios Habla Hoy
Filipenses 3
Dios Habla Hoy
Sobre la circuncisión y la ley
3 Por lo demás, hermanos míos, alégrense en el Señor. Para mí no es ninguna molestia repetir lo que ya les he escrito, y para ustedes es útil. 2 Cuídense de esa gente despreciable, de los malos trabajadores, de esos que mutilan el cuerpo; 3 porque los verdaderos circuncidados somos nosotros, los que adoramos a Dios movidos por su Espíritu, y nos gloriamos de ser de Cristo Jesús, y no ponemos nuestra confianza en las cosas externas. 4 Aunque también yo tengo razones para confiar en tales cosas. Nadie tendría más razones que yo para confiar en ellas: 5 me circuncidaron a los ocho días de nacer, soy de raza israelita, pertenezco a la tribu de Benjamín, soy hebreo e hijo de hebreos. En cuanto a la interpretación de la ley judía, fui del partido fariseo; 6 era tan fanático, que perseguía a los de la iglesia; y en cuanto a la justicia que se basa en el cumplimiento de la ley, era irreprochable. 7 Pero todo esto, que antes valía mucho para mí, ahora, a causa de Cristo, lo tengo por algo sin valor. 8 Aún más, a nada le concedo valor si lo comparo con el bien supremo de conocer a Cristo Jesús, mi Señor. Por causa de Cristo lo he perdido todo, y todo lo considero basura a cambio de ganarlo a él 9 y encontrarme unido a él; no con una justicia propia, adquirida por medio de la ley, sino con la justicia que se adquiere por la fe en Cristo, la que da Dios con base en la fe. 10 Lo que quiero es conocer a Cristo, sentir en mí el poder de su resurrección y la solidaridad en sus sufrimientos; haciéndome semejante a él en su muerte, 11 espero llegar a la resurrección de los muertos.
Todavía no hemos llegado a la meta
12 No quiero decir que ya lo haya conseguido todo, ni que ya sea perfecto; pero sigo adelante con la esperanza de alcanzarlo, puesto que Cristo Jesús me alcanzó primero. 13 Hermanos, no digo que yo mismo ya lo haya alcanzado; lo que sí hago es olvidarme de lo que queda atrás y esforzarme por alcanzar lo que está delante, 14 para llegar a la meta y ganar el premio celestial que Dios nos llama a recibir por medio de Cristo Jesús.
15 Todos los que ya poseemos una fe madura, debemos pensar de esta manera. Si en alguna cosa ustedes piensan de otro modo, Dios les hará ver esto también. 16 Pero, eso sí, debemos vivir de acuerdo con lo que ya hemos alcanzado.
Somos ciudadanos del cielo
17 Hermanos, sigan mi ejemplo y fíjense también en los que viven según el ejemplo que nosotros les hemos dado a ustedes. 18 Ya les he dicho muchas veces, y ahora se lo repito con lágrimas, que hay muchos que están viviendo como enemigos de la cruz de Cristo, 19 y su fin es la perdición. Su dios son sus propios apetitos, y sienten orgullo de lo que debería darles vergüenza. Sólo piensan en las cosas de este mundo. 20 En cambio, nosotros somos ciudadanos del cielo, y estamos esperando que del cielo venga el Salvador, el Señor Jesucristo, 21 que cambiará nuestro cuerpo miserable para que sea como su propio cuerpo glorioso. Y lo hará por medio del poder que tiene para dominar todas las cosas.
Philippians 3
New Life Version
Philippians 3
New Life Version
It Is Christ Only—Not the Things You Do
3 So now, my Christian brothers, be happy because you belong to Christ. It is not hard for me to write the same things to you. It is good for you. 2 Watch out for false teachers. Watch out for sinful men. They want you to depend on the religious act of becoming a Jew for your hope. 3 The act of becoming a Jew has nothing to do with us becoming Christians. We worship God through His Spirit and are proud of Jesus Christ. We have no faith in what we ourselves can do. 4 I could have reason to trust in the flesh. If anyone could feel that the flesh could do something for him, I could. 5 I went through the religious act of becoming a Jew when I was eight days old. I was born a Jew and came from the family group of Benjamin. I was a Jewish son of Jewish parents. I belonged to the group of the proud religious law-keepers. 6 I followed my religion with all my heart and did everything I could to make it hard for the church. No one could say anything against the way I obeyed the Law.
Christ Must Be Lord of Our Lives
7 But I gave up those things that were so important to me for Christ. 8 Even more than that, I think of everything as worth nothing. It is so much better to know Christ Jesus my Lord. I have lost everything for Him. And I think of these things as worth nothing so that I can have Christ. 9 I want to be as one with Him. I could not be right with God by what the Law said I must do. I was made right with God by faith in Christ. 10 I want to know Him. I want to have the same power in my life that raised Jesus from the dead. I want to understand and have a share in His sufferings and be like Christ in His death. 11 Then I may be raised up from among the dead.
12 I do not say that I have received this or have already become perfect. But I keep going on to make that life my own as Christ Jesus made me His own. 13 No, Christian brothers, I do not have that life yet. But I do one thing. I forget everything that is behind me and look forward to that which is ahead of me. 14 My eyes are on the crown. I want to win the race and get the crown of God’s call from heaven through Christ Jesus. 15 All of us who are full-grown Christians should think this way. If you do not think this way, God will show it to you. 16 So let us keep on obeying the same truth we have already been following.
17 Christian brothers, live your lives as I have lived mine. Watch those who live as I have taught you to live. 18 There are many whose lives show they hate the cross of Christ. I have told you this before. Now I tell you again with tears in my eyes. 19 Their god is their stomach. They take pride in things they should be ashamed of. All they think about are the things of this world. In the end they will be destroyed. 20 But we are citizens of heaven. Christ, the One Who saves from the punishment of sin, will be coming down from heaven again. We are waiting for Him to return. 21 He will change these bodies of ours of the earth and make them new. He will make them like His body of shining-greatness. He has the power to do this because He can make all things obey Him.
Philippians 3
New International Version
Philippians 3
New International Version
No Confidence in the Flesh
3 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again,(A) and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Watch out for those dogs,(B) those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. 3 For it is we who are the circumcision,(C) we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus,(D) and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence.(E)
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised(F) on the eighth day, of the people of Israel,(G) of the tribe of Benjamin,(H) a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;(I) 6 as for zeal,(J) persecuting the church;(K) as for righteousness based on the law,(L) faultless.
7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss(M) for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing(N) Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ(O) 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,(P) but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness(Q) that comes from God on the basis of faith.(R) 10 I want to know(S) Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings,(T) becoming like him in his death,(U) 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection(V) from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal,(W) but I press on to take hold(X) of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.(Y) 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind(Z) and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on(AA) toward the goal to win the prize(AB) for which God has called(AC) me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Following Paul’s Example
15 All of us, then, who are mature(AD) should take such a view of things.(AE) And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.(AF) 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17 Join together in following my example,(AG) brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.(AH) 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears,(AI) many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.(AJ) 19 Their destiny(AK) is destruction, their god is their stomach,(AL) and their glory is in their shame.(AM) Their mind is set on earthly things.(AN) 20 But our citizenship(AO) is in heaven.(AP) And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,(AQ) 21 who, by the power(AR) that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies(AS) so that they will be like his glorious body.(AT)
Footnotes
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