The true gospel to know his power and share in His sufferings. Not grace and blessings alone . Lop sided preaching n teaching tq gbu all Philippians 3:10 Parallel Verses New International Version I want to know Christ--yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, New Living Translation I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, English Standard Version that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, New American Standard Bible that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; King James Bible That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; Holman Christian Standard Bible My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, International Standard Version I want to know the Messiah —what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, NET Bible My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death, Aramaic Bible in Plain English That by it I may know Yeshua and the power of his resurrection, and that I may share in his sufferings and be conformed with his death, GODS WORD® Translation that knows Christ. Faith knows the power that his coming back to life gives and what it means to share his suffering. In this way Im becoming like him in his death, Jubilee Bible 2000 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death, King James 2000 Bible That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; American King James Version That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death; American Standard Version that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; Douay-Rheims Bible That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death, Darby Bible Translation to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, English Revised Version that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; Websters Bible Translation That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death; Weymouth New Testament I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection, and to share in His sufferings and die even as He died; World English Bible that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death; Youngs Literal Translation to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, Parallel Commentaries Matthew Henrys Concise Commentary 3:1-11 Sincere Christians rejoice in Christ Jesus. The prophet calls the false prophets dumb dogs, Isa 56:10; to which the apostle seems to refer. Dogs, for their malice against faithful professors of the gospel of Christ, barking at them and biting them. They urged human works in opposition to the faith of Christ; but Paul calls them evil-workers. He calls them the concision; as they rent the church of Christ, and cut it to pieces. The work of religion is to no purpose, unless the heart is in it, and we must worship God in the strength and grace of the Divine Spirit. They rejoice in Christ Jesus, not in mere outward enjoyments and performances. Nor can we too earnestly guard against those who oppose or abuse the doctrine of free salvation. If the apostle would have gloried and trusted in the flesh, he had as much cause as any man. But the things which he counted gain while a Pharisee, and had reckoned up, those he counted loss for Christ. The apostle did not persuade them to do any thing but what he himself did; or to venture on any thing but that on which he himself ventured his never-dying soul. He deemed all these things to be but loss, compared with the knowledge of Christ, by faith in his person and salvation. He speaks of all worldly enjoyments and outward privileges which sought a place with Christ in his heart, or could pretend to any merit and desert, and counted them but loss; but it might be said, It is easy to say so; but what would he do when he came to the trial? He had suffered the loss of all for the privileges of a Christian. Nay, he not only counted them loss, but the vilest refuse, offals thrown to dogs; not only less valuable than Christ, but in the highest degree contemptible, when set up as against him. True knowledge of Christ alters and changes men, their judgments and manners, and makes them as if made again anew. The believer prefers Christ, knowing that it is better for us to be without all worldly riches, than without Christ and his word. Let us see what the apostle resolved to cleave to, and that was Christ and heaven. We are undone, without righteousness wherein to appear before God, for we are guilty. There is a righteousness provided for us in Jesus Christ, and it is a complete and perfect righteousness. None can have benefit by it, who trust in themselves. Faith is the appointed means of applying the saving benefit. It is by faith in Christs blood. We are made conformable to Christs death, when we die to sin, as he died for sin; and the world is crucified to us, and we to the world, by the cross of Christ. The apostle was willing to do or to suffer any thing, to attain the glorious resurrection of saints. This hope and prospect carried him through all difficulties in his work. He did not hope to attain it through his own merit and righteousness, but through the merit and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Pulpit Commentary Verse 10. - That I may know him (τοῦ γνῶναι αὐτόν). For the grammatical construction, see Winer, sect. 44:b. For the sense, comp. John 17:3, where Dr. Westcott notes, In such a connection, Knowledge expresses the apprehension of the truth by the whole nature of man. It is not an acquaintance with facts as external, nor an intellectual conviction of their reality, but an appropriation of them (so to speak) as an influencing power into the very being of him who knows them. Γινώσκειν differs from εἰδέναι: εἰδέναι is to know, γιγνώσκειν is to recognize or to become acquainted with. We must be found in Christ in order to know him; we must have that righteousness which is through the faith of Christ, for we can know him only by being made like unto him. Comp. 1 John 2:2, When he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is; and now those who see him by faith are in their measure being transformed into the same image. For the knowledge here spoken of is a personal knowledge, gained, not by hearing or reading, but by direct personal communion with the Lord; it is not theoretical, but experimental. non expertus fuerit, non intelligit (Anselm, quoted by Meyer). And the power of his resurrection. The resurrection of Christ was a glorious manifestation of Divine power (Romans 1:4). That resurrection is now a power in the spiritual life of Christians: it stimulates the spiritual resurrection, the resurrection from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness (comp. Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12). It is the center of our most cherished hopes, the evidence of our immortality, the earnest of the resurrection of the body. And the fellowship of his sufferings. This clause and the last are bound together under one article, according to the best manuscripts. There is a very close connection between them (comp. Romans 8:17; 2 Timothy 2:11, 12). To know the quickening power of his resurrection, we must share his sufferings. The Christian, meditating in loving thought on the sufferings of Christ, is led to feel ever a deeper, a more awful sympathy with the suffering Savior. And if, when we are called to suffer, we take it patiently, looking unto Jesus, then our sufferings are united with his sufferings, we suffer with him. And he who hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows feels for us in his sacred heart, being touched with the feeling of our infirmities. This fellowship in suffering leads through his grace to fellowship in glory (comp. 2 Corinthians 4:10; Romans 6:5). Being made conformable unto his death; rather, as R.V., becoming conformed. The participle is present: it implies a continual progress. It is derived from the word μορφή, form, used in Philippians 2:6 (where see note), and denotes, not a mere external resemblance, but a deep, real, inner conformity. The reference is not to the impending death of martyrdom, but to that daffy dying unto self and the world which the apostle exhibited in the heroic self-denials of his holy life: he was crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20; comp. also 1 Corinthians 15:31). Gills Exposition of the Entire Bible That I may know him,.... The Ethiopic version reads by faith; and to the same sense the Syriac. The apostle did know Christ, and that years ago; he knew whom he had believed; he knew him for himself; he knew his personal interest in him; nor did he know any but him in the business of salvation: but his knowledge of Christ, though it was very great, it was, imperfect; he knew but in part, and therefore desired to know more of Christ, of the mystery and glories of his person, of the unsearchable riches of his grace, of his great salvation, and the benefits of it, of his love, which passes perfect knowledge, and to have a renewed and enlarged experience of communion with him. The apostle here explains what he means by winning Christ, for the sake of which he suffered the loss of all things, and counted them but dung; it was, that he might attain to a greater knowledge of the person and grace of Christ: and the power of his resurrection; not that power which was put forth by his Father, and by himself, in raising him from the dead; but the virtue which arises from it, and the influence it has on many things; as on the resurrection of the saints: it is the procuring cause of it, they shall rise by virtue of union to a risen Jesus; it is the firstfruits, which is the earnest and pledge of their resurrection, as sure as Christ is risen, so sure shall they rise; it is the exemplar and pattern of theirs, their bodies will be raised and fashioned like to the glorious body of Christ; and this the apostle desired to know, experience, and attain unto. Christs resurrection has an influence also on the justification of his people; when Christ died he had the sins of them all upon him, and he died for them, and discharged as their public head and representative, and they in him: hence it is said of him, that he was raised again for our justification, Romans 4:25. Now, though the apostle was acquainted with this virtue and influence of Christs resurrection, he desired to know more of it, for the encouragement of his faith to live upon Christ, as the Lord his righteousness. Moreover, the regeneration of men is owing to the resurrection of Christ; as to the abundant mercy of God, as the moving cause, so to the resurrection of Christ, as the means or virtual cause; and therefore are said to be begotten again by the resurrection of Christ from the dead, 1 Peter 1:3. This power and virtue the apostle had had an experience of, yet he wanted to feel more of it, in exciting the graces of the spirit to a lively exercise, in raising his affections, and setting them on things above, and in engaging him to seek after them, and set light by things on earth, and in causing him to walk in newness of life, in likeness or imitation of Christs resurrection, to all which that strongly animates and encourages; see Colossians 3:1. And the fellowship of his sufferings; either his personal sufferings, and so signifies a sharing in, and a participation of the benefits arising from them; such as reconciliation for sin, peace with God, pardon, righteousness, nearness to God, &c. or the sufferings of his members for him, and with him, and which Christ reckons his own: these the apostle was willing to take his part in, and lot of, knowing, that those that are partakers of his sufferings in this sense, shall reign with him, and be glorified together. What the Jews deprecated, the apostle was desirous of; namely, sharing in the sorrows and sufferings of the Messiah, and which they reckon the greatest happiness to be delivered from, The disciples of R. Eleazar (y) asked him, what a man should do that he may be delivered , from the sorrows of the Messiah? he must study in the law, and in beneficence. And elsewhere they say (z), he that keeps the three meals on the sabbath day shall be delivered from three punishments, , from the sorrows of the Messiah, and from the damnation of hell, and from the war of Gog and Magog. But our apostle rejoiced in his sufferings for Christ, and was desirous of filling up the afflictions of Christ in his flesh, for his bodys sake, the church: being made conformable unto his death; either in a spiritual sense dying daily unto sin, 1 Corinthians 15:31, having the affections, with the lusts, crucified, Galatians 5:24, and the deeds of the body mortified, Romans 8:13, and so planted in the likeness of his death, Romans 6:5; or rather in a corporeal sense, bearing always in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, 2 Corinthians 4:10, and being continually exposed to death for his sake, and ready to suffer it whenever called to it, (y) T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 2.((z) T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 118. 1. See Cetubot, fol. 111. 1. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 10. That I may know him—experimentally. The aim of the righteousness just mentioned. This verse resumes, and more fully explains, the excellency of the knowledge of Christ (Php 3:8). To know HIM is more than merely to know a doctrine about Him. Believers are brought not only to redemption, but to the Redeemer Himself. the power of his resurrection—assuring believers of their justification (Ro 4:25; 1Co 15:17), and raising them up spiritually with Him, by virtue of their identification with Him in this, as in all the acts of His redeeming work for us (Ro 6:4; Col 2:12; 3:1). The power of the Divine Spirit, which raised Him from literal death, is the same which raises believers from spiritual death now (Eph 1:19, 20), and shall raise their bodies from literal death hereafter (Ro 8:11). the fellowship of his sufferings—by identification with Him in His sufferings and death, by imputation; also, in actually bearing the cross whatever is laid on us, after His example, and so filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ (Col 1:24); and in the will to bear aught for His sake (Mt 10:38; 16:24; 2Ti 2:11). As He bore all our sufferings (Isa 53:4), so we participate in His. made conformable unto his death—conformed to the likeness of His death, namely, by continued sufferings for His sake, and mortifying of the carnal self (Ro 8:29; 1Co 15:31; 2Co 4:10-12; Ga 2:20). Philippians 3:10 Additional Commentaries
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