Modern Literal Version
[Philippians 3]


     3:1 Furthermore, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Indeed, it is not tedious for me to write the same things to you*, but for your* certainty. 3:2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the mutilation. 3:3 For* we are the circumcision, who are giving divine-service in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh; 3:4 although I myself might have confidence in the flesh; if any other is thinking to have confidence in the flesh, I yeteven more. 3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew out of Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee; 3:6 according to zeal, I waspersecuting the congregation; according to the righteousness which is in the law, I was blameless.3:7 But what things were gain to me, I have deemed these a forfeiture because of Christ. 3:8 But therefore, I am also deeming all things indeed to be a forfeiture because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom, I did forfeit all things and am deemingthem to be but trash, that* I may gain Christ, 3:9 and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, which is from the law, but which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God on the faith, 3:10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being transformed to his death; 3:11 if somehow I may achieve to the resurrection from the dead. 3:12 Not that I have already received it or have already been perfected in this; but I am pursuing it, if I might grab that for which I was also grabbed by Christ Jesus. 3:13 Brethren, I do not reason to have grabbed it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind me and stretching forward to the things which are in front of me. 3:14 I am pursuing the goal for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus. 3:15Therefore as many as are mature, we should be mindful of this and if you* are mindful of anything differently, God will also reveal this to you*; 3:16 however in what we have attained, let us march by the same standard*, let us be mindful of the same things.


     3:17 Brethren, become joint imitators with me, and note those who are walking so, just-as you*have us as an example . 3:18 For* many are walking, (of whom I told you* often before and tell you*now even weeping), who are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and whose glory is in their shame, who are mindful of earthly things. 3:20For* our citizenship exists in the heavens; out of which we are also waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 3:21 He will fashion the body of our humbleness, *that* it may become transformed to the body of his glory according to the working of which he is able to even subject all things to himself.



Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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