「使我認識基督，曉得他復活的大能……」（10節）

經文
腓立比書三7-21

7只是我先前以為與我有益的，我現在因基督都當作有損的。

8不但如此，我也將萬事當作有損的，因我以認識我主基督耶穌為至寶。我為他已經丟棄萬事，看作糞土，為要得著基督；

9並且得以在他裡面，不是有自己因律法而得的義，乃是有信基督的義，就是因信神而來的義，

10使我認識基督，曉得他復活的大能，並且曉得和他一同受苦，效法他的死，

11或者我也得以從死裡復活。

12這不是說我已經得著了，已經完全了；我乃是竭力追求，或者可以得著基督耶穌所以得著我的（或作：所要我得的）。

13弟兄們，我不是以為自己已經得著了；我只有一件事，就是忘記背後，努力面前的，

14向著標竿直跑，要得神在基督耶穌裡從上面召我來得的獎賞。

15所以我們中間，凡是完全人總要存這樣的心；若在甚麼事上存別樣的心，神也必以此指示你們。

16然而，我們到了甚麼地步，就當照著甚麼地步行。

17弟兄們，你們要一同效法我，也當留意看那些照我們榜樣行的人。

18因為有許多人行事是基督十字架的仇敵。我屢次告訴你們，現在又流淚的告訴你們：

19他們的結局就是沉淪；他們的神就是自己的肚腹。他們以自己的羞辱為榮耀，專以地上的事為念。

20我們卻是天上的國民，並且等候救主，就是主耶穌基督從天上降臨。

21他要按著那能叫萬有歸服自己的大能，將我們這卑賤的身體改變形狀，和他自己榮耀的身體相似。

"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection..." (v.10)

Bible reading:
Philippians 3:7-21

7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

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 in[a] 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.

13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.

16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.

18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

19 Their destiny is destructionn, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.

20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.