Philippians 3:11
if so be, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
In Context
Cross References
Luke 20:35But they who are worthy of that world, and of the resurrection from the dead, do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands.
Acts 23:6And, as Paul knew that a part of the people were of the Sadducees, and a part of the Pharisees, he cried out, in the assembly: Men, my brethren; I am a Pharisee the son of a Pharisee; and for the hope of the resurrection of the dead, I am judged.
Acts 27:12And, because that harbor was not commodious for wintering in, many of us were desirous to sail from it, and if possible, to reach and to winter in a certain harbor of Crete, which was called Phenice, and which opened towards the south.
1 Corinthians 9:22I was with the weak, as weak, that I might gain the weak: I was all things to all men, that I might vivify every one.
2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity towards the Messiah.
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 →