No Confidence in Flesh    

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

    

I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness

of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,

for whose sake I have lost all things.

I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 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 and is by faith.

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection

and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, 

becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow,

to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Philippians 3:7-11