Philippians 3:12
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.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
11If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Cross References
Psalms 42:1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
Psalms 63:8My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.
Psalms 94:15But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
Psalms 119:5O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!
Psalms 138:8The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of yours own hands.
Isaiah 51:1Hearken to me, all of you that follow after righteousness, all of you that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence all of you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence all of you are dug.
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 →