Philippians 3:12-16
World English Bible
12 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.
13 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, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
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Philippians 3:12-16
Lexham English Bible
12 Not that I have already received this,[a] or have already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.[b] 13 Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of it.[c] But I do one thing, forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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15 Therefore as many as are perfect, let us hold this opinion[d], and if you think anything differently, God will reveal this also to you. 16 Only to what we have attained, to the same hold on.
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- Philippians 3:12 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Philippians 3:12 Some manuscripts have “Christ Jesus”
- Philippians 3:13 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Philippians 3:15 Literally “let us think this”
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