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May 1, 2025 10:27 PM

  Philippians 3:10 In-Context

  8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

  9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith inOr "through the faithfulness of" Christ-the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

  10 I want to know Christ-yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

  11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

  12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

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