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Philippians 3
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you is necessary.
2 Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more:
5 Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, a Pharisee: Fathers
6 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame. CCC
7 But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.
8 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ. CCC
9 And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith. CCC
10 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death, CCC
11 If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from the dead. CCC · Fathers
12 Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one thing I do: Forgetting the things that are behind and stretching forth myself to those that are before,
14 I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you,
16 Nevertheless, whereunto we are come, that we be of the same mind, let us also continue in the same rule.
17 Be ye followers of me, brethren: and observe them who walk so as you have our model.
18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.
20 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, CCC
21 Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself. CCC
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text. The Catechism uses modern verse numbers, so these are listed by chapter.
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“Trypho," says he, "I am called; and I am a Hebrew of the circumcision,”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter I. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 752 “In Christian usage, the word "church" designates the liturgical assembly, but also the local community 142 or the whole universal community of…”
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- CCC 428 “Whoever is called "to teach Christ" must first seek "the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus"; he must suffer "the loss of…”
- CCC 2653 “The Church "forcefully and specially exhorts all the Christian faithful . . . to learn 'the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ' (…”
- CCC 133 “The Church "forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful... to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of…”
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- CCC 428 “Whoever is called "to teach Christ" must first seek "the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus"; he must suffer "the loss of…”
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- CCC 428 “Whoever is called "to teach Christ" must first seek "the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus"; he must suffer "the loss of…”
- CCC 648 “Christ's Resurrection is an object of faith in that it is a transcendent intervention of God himself in creation and history. In…”
- CCC 989 “We firmly believe, and hence we hope that, just as Christ is truly risen from the dead and lives for ever, so…”
- CCC 1006 “It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but…”
Read the Catechism and Fathers
- CCC 428 “Whoever is called "to teach Christ" must first seek "the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus"; he must suffer "the loss of…”
- CCC 989 “We firmly believe, and hence we hope that, just as Christ is truly risen from the dead and lives for ever, so…”
- CCC 1006 “It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but…”
“Of which resurrection the apostle speaks in the Epistle to the Philippians: "Having been made conformable to His death, if by any means I might attain to the resurrection which is from the dead.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 556 “On the threshold of the public life: the baptism; on the threshold of the Passover: the Transfiguration. Jesus' baptism proclaimed "the mystery…”
- CCC 793 “Christ unites us with his Passover: all his members must strive to resemble him, "until Christ be formed" in them. "For this…”
- CCC 999 “How? Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself"; but he did…”
- Philippians 3:29 in modern Bibles
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“… is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, who shall transfigure the body of our humiliation conformable to the body of His glory, even as He is able (ita ut possit) according to the working of His own power.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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