Philippians 3:10
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,

Berean Standard Bible
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

Berean Literal Bible
to 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;

New King James Version
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to 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;

NASB 1995
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

NASB 1977
that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

Legacy Standard Bible
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Amplified Bible
And this, so that I may know Him [experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understanding the remarkable wonders of His Person more completely] and [in that same way experience] the power of His resurrection [which overflows and is active in believers], and [that I may share] the fellowship of His sufferings, by being continually conformed [inwardly into His likeness even] to His death [dying as He did];

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,

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,

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;

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,

Contemporary English Version
All I want is to know Christ and the power that raised him to life. I want to suffer and die as he did,

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,

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;

GOD'S 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 I'm becoming like him in his death,

Good News Translation
All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and become like him in 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,

Literal Standard Version
to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Majority Standard Bible
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

New American Bible
to know him and the power of his resurrection and [the] sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to 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,

New Revised Standard Version
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

New Heart English Bible
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

Webster's 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,

Young's Literal Translation
to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Knowing Christ Above All Else
9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 9:23
This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

John 17:3
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Romans 6:5
For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

Romans 8:17
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ--if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Romans 8:36
As it is written: "For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

2 Corinthians 1:5
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

Galatians 6:17
From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.


Treasury of Scripture

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death;

I.

Philippians 3:8
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

1 John 2:3,5
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments…

and the power.

John 5:21-29
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will…

John 10:18
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

John 11:25,26
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: …

and the fellowship.

Matthew 20:23
And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

Romans 6:3-5
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? …

Romans 8:17,29
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together…

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Philippians 3
1. He warns them to beware of the false teachers;
4. showing that himself has greater cause than they to trust in the righteousness of the law;
7. which he counts as loss, to gain Christ and his righteousness;
12. acknowledging his own imperfection and pressing on toward the goal;
15. He exhorts them to be thus minded;
17. and to imitate him,
18. and to decline carnal ways.














(10) Inseparably connected with the possession of this "righteousness of God" is the knowledge of Christ, or more exactly, the gaining the knowledge of Christ (see Philippians 3:8), by conformity both to His suffering and death, and also to His resurrection. This "conformity to the image of Christ" (Romans 8:29-30)--with which compare the having "Christ formed within us" of Galatians 4:19)--is made by St. Paul the substance of the gracious predestination of God, preceding the call, the justification, the glorification, which mark the various epochs of Christian life.

(10, 11) The order of these verses is notable and instructive. (1) First comes the knowledge of "the power of the Resurrection." What this is we see by examining it as historically the main subject of the first apostolic preaching. There it is considered, as in St. Peter's first sermons, as giving the earnest of "forgiveness," or "blotting out of sins," and the "gift of the Holy Ghost" (Acts 2:38; Acts 3:13; Acts 3:26), or, as St. Paul expresses it, of "justification from all things" (Acts 13:38-39). This same idea is wrought out fully in his Epistles. Thus, for example, without it (1Corinthians 15:17) "we are still in our sins." It is the pledge of our justification (Romans 5:1), and the means of our being "alive unto God" (Romans 6:11). Hence "the power," or efficacy, "of His resurrection" is the justification, and regeneration inseparable from it, which lie at the entrance of Christian life. (2) Next comes the "partaking of His sufferings" and "conformity to His death," which are the "taking up the cross, and following Him," in the obedience even unto death. This "fellowship of sufferings," coming partly from the sin of others, partly from our own, is the constant theme of the New Testament. (See 1Peter 4:13; Romans 8:17; 2Corinthians 1:5; Colossians 1:24; 2Timothy 2:11.) The "conformity to His death" is the completion of the death unto sin, described as "mortification" of sin (Colossians 3:5); "as bearing about in the body the dying (or, properly, mortification) of the Lord Jesus" (2Corinthians 4:10); or more frequently as being "crucified with Christ," "the world to us and we to the world" (Galatians 2:20; Galatians 5:24; Galatians 6:14). (3) Lastly comes the "attainment to the resurrection of the dead," properly, "the resurrection from the dead," which is (see Luke 20:35) the resurrection unto life and the glorification in Him, so nobly described below (Philippians 3:20-21). "If we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection" (Romans 6:5). For of our resurrection (see 1Corinthians 15:12-23) His resurrection is not only the pledge, but the earnest. Note how in 1Thessalonians 4:14-18, and 1Corinthians 15:51-57, the whole description is only of the resurrection unto life, and compare the first resurrection of Revelation 20:6. This is the completion of all; St. Paul dared not as yet anticipate it with the confidence which hereafter soothed his dying hour (2Timothy 4:7-8). . . .

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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
[I want] to know
γνῶναι (gnōnai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

[Christ]
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

power
δύναμιν (dynamin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1411: From dunamai; force; specially, miraculous power.

of
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

resurrection
ἀναστάσεως (anastaseōs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 386: A rising again, resurrection. From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. a resurrection from death (its author), or a recovery.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

fellowship
κοινωνίαν (koinōnian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2842: From koinonos; partnership, i.e. participation, or intercourse, or benefaction.

of
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

sufferings,
παθημάτων (pathēmatōn)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3804: From a presumed derivative of pathos; something undergone, i.e. Hardship or pain; subjectively, an emotion or influence.

being conformed
συμμορφιζόμενος (symmorphizomenos)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4833: To bring to the same form with, conform. From summorphos; to render like, i.e. to assimilate.

to [Him]
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

in His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

death,
θανάτῳ (thanatō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2288: Death, physical or spiritual. From thnesko; death.


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