Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it yet. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,
Text-Critical English NT
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In Context
14I press on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Cross References
Luke 9:62But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Romans 15:23But now, since I no longer have a place in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,
2 Corinthians 5:16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, we no longer know him in that way.
Philippians 2:12Therefore, my beloved friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
Philippians 3:12Not that I have already obtained it or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of me.
Matthew Henry on Philippians 3:10-15
The Apostle's Concern, Hope, and Aim. ( a. d. 62.) 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if… Read the whole commentary →