Philipper 3 | الكتاب المقدس

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1 وَبَعْدُ، يَا إِخْوَتِي، افْرَحُوا فِي الرَّبِّ. لَا يُزْعِجُنِي أَنْ أَكْتُبَ إِلَيْكُمْ بِالأُمُورِ نَفْسِهَا، فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يَجْعَلُكُمْ فِي مَأْمَنٍ.

2 خُذُوا حِذْرَكُمْ مِنَ «الْكِلابِ»، مِنَ عُمَّالِ الشَّرِ، مِنْ الَّذِينَ يَبْتُرُونَ الْجَسَدَ.

3 فَإِنَّنَا نَحْنُ أَهْلُ الْخِتَانِ الْحَقِّ، لأَنَّنَا إِنَّمَا نَعْبُدُ بِرُوحِ اللهِ وَنَفْتَخِرُ فِي الْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ، وَلا نَعْتَمِدُ عَلَى أُمُورِ الْجَسَدِ،

4 مَعَ أَنَّ مِنْ حَقِّي أَنَا أَيْضاً أَنْ أَعْتَمِدَ عَلَيْهَا. فَإِنْ خَطَرَ عَلَى بَالِ أَحَدٍ أَنْ يَعْتَمِدَ عَلَى أُمُورِ الْجَسَدِ، فَأَنَا أَحَقُّ مِنْهُ:

5 فَمِنْ جِهَةِ الْخِتَانِ، مَخْتُونٌ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّامِنِ مِنْ عُمْرِي؛ وَأَنَا مِنْ جِنْسِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، مِنْ سِبْطِ بِنْيَامِينَ، عِبْرَانِيٌّ مِنَ الْعِبْرَانِيِّينَ؛ وَمِنْ جِهَةِ الشَّرِيعَةِ، أَنَا فَرِّيسِيٌّ؛

6 وَمِنْ جِهَةِ الْحَمَاسَةِ، مُضْطَهِدٌ لِلْكَنِيسَةِ؛ وَمِنْ جِهَةِ الْبِرِّ الْمَطْلُوبِ فِي الشَّرِيعَةِ، كُنْتُ بِلا لَوْمٍ.

7 وَلَكِنْ، مَا كَانَ لِي مِنْ رِبْحٍ، فَقَدِ اعْتَبَرْتُهُ خَسَارَةً، مِنْ أَجْلِ الْمَسِيحِ.

8 بَلْ إِنِّي أَعْتَبِرُ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَسَارَةً، مِنْ أَجْلِ امْتِيَازِ مَعْرِفَةِ الْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ رَبِّي؛ فَمِنْ أَجْلِهِ تَحَمَّلْتُ خَسَارَةَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، وَأَعْتَبِرُ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ نُفَايَةً، لِكَيْ أَرْبَحَ الْمَسِيحَ

9 وَيَكُونَ لِي فِيهِ مَقَامٌ، إِذْ لَيْسَ لِي بِرِّي الذَّاتِيُّ الْقَائِمُ عَلَى أَسَاسِ الشَّرِيعَةِ، بَلِ الْبِرُّ الآتِي مِنَ الإِيمَانِ بِالْمَسِيحِ، الْبِرُّ الَّذِي مِنْ عِنْدِ اللهِ عَلَى أَسَاسِ الإِيمَانِ.

10 وَغَايَتِي أَنْ أَعْرِفَ الْمَسِيحَ وَقُوَّةَ قِيَامَتِهِ وَالشَّرِكَةَ فِي آلامِهِ؛ وَالتَّشَبُّهَ بِهِ فِي مَوْتِهِ،

11 عَلَى رَجَاءِ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنْ بَيْنِ الأَمْوَاتِ!

12 لَسْتُ أَدَّعِي أَنِّي قَدْ نِلْتُ الْجَائِزَةَ أَوْ بَلَغْتُ الكَمَالَ. وَلَكِنِّي مَاأَزَالُ أَسْعَى لِاقْتِنَائِهَا، كَمَا أَنَّ الْمَسِيحَ يَسُوعَ قَدِ اقْتَنَانِي.

13 أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ، أَنَا لَا أَعْتَبِرُ نَفْسِي قَدِ نِلْتُ الْجَائِزَةَ، وَلَكِنِّي أَفْعَلُ أَمْراً وَاحِداً: أَنْسَى مَا هُوَ وَرَاءُ وَأَتَقَدَّمُ إِلَى مَا هُوَ أَمَامُ،

14 إِذْ أَسْعَى إِلَى الْهَدَفِ، لِنَوَالِ تِلْكَ الْجَائِزَةِ الَّتِي يَدْعُونَا اللهُ إِلَيْهَا دَعْوَةً عُلْيَا فِي الْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ.

اتباع مثال بولس

15 جَمِيعُ الْبَالِغِينَ فِينَا، لِيَكُنْ فِيهِمْ هَذَا الْفِكْرُ. وَإِنْ كَانَ فِيكُمْ غَيْرُ هَذَا الْفِكْرِ، فَذَلِكَ أَيْضاً سَيَكْشِفُهُ لَكُمُ اللهُ.

16 إِنَّمَا، لِنُواصِلِ السَّيْرَ مِنْ حَيْثُ قَدْ وَصَلْنَا، فِي الْمَنْهَجِ نَفْسِهِ.

17 كُونُوا جَمِيعاً، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ، مُقْتَدِينَ بِي؛ وَلاحِظُوا الَّذِينَ يَسْلُكُونَ بِحَسَبِ الْقُدْوَةِ الَّتِي تَرَوْنَهَا فِينَا.

18 فَإِنَّ كَثِيرِينَ مِمَّنَ يَسْلُكُونَ بَيْنَكُمْ، وَقَدْ ذَكَرْتُهُمْ لَكُمْ مِرَاراً وَأَذْكُرُهُمُ الآنَ أَيْضاً بَاكِياً، إِنَّمَا هُمْ أَعْدَاءُ لِصَلِيبِ الْمَسِيحِ.

19 الَّذِينَ مَصِيرُهُمُ الْهَلاكُ، وَإِلهُهُمْ بُطُونُهُمْ، وَفَخْرُهُمْ فِي خِزْيِهِمْ، وَفِكْرُهُمْ مُنْصَرِفٌ إِلَى الأُمُورِ الأَرْضِيَّةِ.

20 أَمَّا نَحْنُ، فَإِنَّ وَطَنَنَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ الَّتِي مِنْهَا نَنْتَظِرُ عَوْدَةَ مُخَلِّصِنَا الرَّبِّ يَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ،

21 الَّذِي سَيُحَوِّلُ جَسَدَنَا الْوَضِيعَ إِلَى صُورَةٍ مُطَابِقَةٍ لِجَسَدِهِ الْمَجِيدِ، وَفْقاً لِعَمَلِ قُدْرَتِهِ عَلَى إِخْضَاعِ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ لِنَفْسِهِ.

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New International Version

No confidence in the flesh

1 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.

3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh –

4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:

5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;

6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.

7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in* Christ – the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

10 I want to know Christ – yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead,

14 I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus.

Following Paul’s example

15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.

16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.

18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.

20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

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