Philippians 3:8-10
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8 What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah[a] Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish[b] in order to gain the Messiah[c] 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but one that comes through the faithfulness[d] of the Messiah,[e] the righteousness that comes from God and that depends on faith. 10 I want to know the Messiah[f]—what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,
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- Philippians 3:8 Or Christ
- Philippians 3:8 Or dung
- Philippians 3:8 Or Christ
- Philippians 3:9 Or through faith in
- Philippians 3:9 Or Christ
- Philippians 3:10 Lit. To know him
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