Philippians 3:12

It is not true that I have already received these things, or that I have become complete. But I press on in order that I may grasp that for which I was grasped by Christ Jesus.

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In The King James Version

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

In Context

11so somehow I may experience the resurrection from the dead.

13Brothers, I do not think that I myself have yet grasped it. But there is one thing: I forget what is behind and strain for what is ahead.

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Cross References

Psalms 42:1As the deer pants after streams of water, 1 so I thirst for you, God. 1

Psalms 63:8I cling to you; 1 your right hand supports me. 1

Psalms 94:15For judgment will again be righteous; 1 and all the upright in heart will follow it. 1

Psalms 119:5Oh, that I would be firmly established 1 in the observance of your statutes! 1

Psalms 138:8Yahweh is with me to the end; 1 your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, endures forever. 1 Do not forsake the ones whom your hands have made.

Isaiah 51:1Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: 1 look at the rock from which you were chiseled and to the quarry from which you were cut. 1

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 →

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