Philippiens 3
Louis Segond
3 Au reste, mes frères, réjouissez-vous dans le Seigneur. Je ne me lasse point de vous écrire les mêmes choses, et pour vous cela est salutaire.
2 Prenez garde aux chiens, prenez garde aux mauvais ouvriers, prenez garde aux faux circoncis.
3 Car les circoncis, c'est nous, qui rendons à Dieu notre culte par l'Esprit de Dieu, qui nous glorifions en Jésus Christ, et qui ne mettons point notre confiance en la chair.
4 Moi aussi, cependant, j'aurais sujet de mettre ma confiance en la chair. Si quelque autre croit pouvoir se confier en la chair, je le puis bien davantage,
5 moi, circoncis le huitième jour, de la race d'Israël, de la tribu de Benjamin, Hébreu né d'Hébreux; quant à la loi, pharisien;
6 quant au zèle, persécuteur de l'Église; irréprochable, à l'égard de la justice de la loi.
7 Mais ces choses qui étaient pour moi des gains, je les ai regardées comme une perte, à cause de Christ.
8 Et même je regarde toutes choses comme une perte, à cause de l'excellence de la connaissance de Jésus Christ mon Seigneur, pour lequel j'ai renoncé à tout, et je les regarde comme de la boue, afin de gagner Christ,
9 et d'être trouvé en lui, non avec ma justice, celle qui vient de la loi, mais avec celle qui s'obtient par la foi en Christ, la justice qui vient de Dieu par la foi,
10 Afin de connaître Christ, et la puissance de sa résurrection, et la communion de ses souffrances, en devenant conforme à lui dans sa mort, pour parvenir,
11 si je puis, à la résurrection d'entre les morts.
12 Ce n'est pas que j'aie déjà remporté le prix, ou que j'aie déjà atteint la perfection; mais je cours, pour tâcher de le saisir, puisque moi aussi j'ai été saisi par Jésus Christ.
13 Frères, je ne pense pas l'avoir saisi; mais je fais une chose: oubliant ce qui est en arrière et me portant vers ce qui est en avant,
14 je cours vers le but, pour remporter le prix de la vocation céleste de Dieu en Jésus Christ.
15 Nous tous donc qui sommes parfaits, ayons cette même pensée; et si vous êtes en quelque point d'un autre avis, Dieu vous éclairera aussi là-dessus.
16 Seulement, au point où nous sommes parvenus, marchons d'un même pas.
17 Soyez tous mes imitateurs, frères, et portez les regards sur ceux qui marchent selon le modèle que vous avez en nous.
18 Car il en est plusieurs qui marchent en ennemis de la croix de Christ, je vous en ai souvent parlé, et j'en parle maintenant encore en pleurant.
19 Leur fin sera la perdition; ils ont pour dieu leur ventre, ils mettent leur gloire dans ce qui fait leur honte, ils ne pensent qu'aux choses de la terre.
20 Mais notre cité à nous est dans les cieux, d'où nous attendons aussi comme Sauveur le Seigneur Jésus Christ,
21 qui transformera le corps de notre humiliation, en le rendant semblable au corps de sa gloire, par le pouvoir qu'il a de s'assujettir toutes choses.
Philippians 3
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Christ is more important than anything
3 My Christian friends, there are a few more things that I want to say. You belong to the Lord, so be happy! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again. And it will help to keep you safe.
2 Be very careful! Some people are teaching bad things. They say that you must cut your bodies. They are like dangerous dogs. Do not believe them! 3 But we are truly God's people. And it is not because someone has circumcised us. It is God's own Spirit that leads us to worship God. We thank God because of what Christ Jesus has done for us. We know that it is not human ideas that can save us.[a]
4 For myself, I could have trusted those human ideas. Perhaps somebody may think that they could trust in those things to save them. Then I would have an even better reason to trust in them. 5 I belong to Israel's people, to Benjamin's tribe. I am a true Jew. They circumcised me when I was eight days old. I was a Pharisee, and I obeyed the Jewish rules very carefully. 6 I tried very much to please God. So I caused a lot of trouble and pain for the Christians. I obeyed the rules of God's Law, and nobody could say that I did anything wrong.
7 All those ideas seemed very important to me then. But now they are worth nothing to me, because I trust in Christ. 8 Yes, now that I know Christ Jesus as my Lord, that is the most valuable thing. Nothing else is important at all. I have thrown everything else away, so that I can serve Christ. All those other things are like dirt to me. I think about them like that, so that I can have Christ. 9 I want to be united with him. Because I believe in Christ, God accepts me as right with him. I know that I cannot become right in any other way, even if I obey all of God's Law. When I trust in Christ, God accepts me as right because of my faith.
10 Yes, I want to know Christ better and better. I want to know the power which God showed when Christ rose from death. I want to have the same kind of troubles that he did. I want to obey God like he did in his death. 11 Then I hope that I also will become alive again after death.
Christians do not belong to this world
12 I am not saying that I have already reached that place in my life. I have not yet completely become the person that God wants me to be. But I am trying very hard to reach that place. That was Christ's purpose when he first made me his own. 13 My Christian friends, I do not think that I have reached that place yet. But this is what I do: I do not think about past things that have already happened. Instead, I try hard to reach the things that are in front of me. 14 I am like a runner who wants to reach the end of the race. I run straight towards that place, so that I can win God's gift. Because I belong to Christ Jesus, God has called me to live with him in heaven. That is God's gift to me at the end of the race.
15 All of us should agree to live like that, if we properly understand God's message. If you think differently about these things, God will show you clearly what is right. 16 But we should continue to live in the way that we already know is right.
17 My Christian friends, you should try to live in the way that I do. Carefully watch other people who live like that. We have shown you what is right. 18 Many people live in a way that shows they do not agree with God's message. I have told you about these people many times before. And now I am crying when I tell you about them. I am very sad, because they speak against Christ's death on the cross. 19 In the end, God will destroy them. Their stomach is what they worship. They are proud of things that should make them ashamed. Their thoughts are full of things that belong to this world. 20 But as for us, the home where we belong is in heaven. We are waiting for the Lord Jesus Christ to come from there. He is the one who will come from heaven and save us. 21 He will change these weak bodies that we have now on this earth. He will make them become strong and beautiful, like his own body that he has in heaven. Christ will use his great power to do this. That is the power that he uses to rule over everything.
Footnotes
- 3:3 If we believe in Christ, we become God's people because Christ died on our behalf. God gives us his Holy Spirit to lead us. So we have something much better than a mark on our bodies. Some false teachers were saying that Christians had to be circumcised. They said, ‘Unless that happens, you do not belong to God's people.’ Paul is telling the Christians that they must not believe these people.
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