Study it in the app“and be found in him, not having my own righteousness that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in the Messiah, the righteousness from God based on faith,”
andκαὶbe foundεὑρεθῶinἐνhim,αὐτῷnotμὴhavingἔχωνmy ownἐμὴνrighteousnessδικαιοσύνηνthat comesτὴνfromἐκthe law,νόμουbutἀλλὰthat which comesτὴνthroughδιὰfaithπίστεωςin the Messiah,Χριστοῦthe righteousnessτὴν δικαιοσύνηνfromἐκGodθεοῦbased onἐπὶfaith,τῇ πίστει
find
To come upon something or someone, after searching or by surprise.
Where else “heurethō” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echōn” appearsmy, mine
My, mine.
Where else “emēn” appearsrighteousness
Doing what is just, living as God wants.
Where else “dikaiosynēn” appearslaw
The instructions God gave Israel through Moses; also, the whole of Scripture.
Where else “nomou” appearstrust
Truly trusting in God or in Jesus.
Where else “pisteōs” appearsMessiah
Messiah: literally "anointed", the king or envoy God consecrates with oil. It is a title, not a surname; in Hebrew, mashiach.
Where else “Christou” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theou” appears“Faith in the Messiah”: it can also be understood as “the faithfulness of the Messiah,” as in Galatians 2:16.
8More than that, I also consider all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of the knowledge of the Messiah Jesus my Lord, because of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and I consider them garbage, so that I may gain the Messiah
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10to know him and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
1. What it says
What things that Paul once counted as gain does he now count as loss, and why (v. 4-8)?
2. What it means
Paul says, "forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead" (v. 13). What do you think that means?
3. How I live it
Paul keeps pressing on without claiming to be perfect (v. 12-14). What small step can you take today in something you want to grow in?
