빌립보서 3:12 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:12-16

St. Paul's humility. I. HE HAS NOT YET ATTAINED ; HE IS NOT PERFECT . 1 . The most advanced Christian is always the humblest. The nearer we draw to Christ, the more we feel our own unworthiness. The light of Christ's holiness, manifested in the hearts of his saints, brings out into clearer light the exceeding sinfulness of sin. 2 . But he is striving after perfection. The Christian knows his own weakness and sin, but he knows also that he is really following... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:12-16

The river of forgetfulness. Paul has sketched in the preceding verses what we may call his spiritual programme. Much of the attainment lies before him still, so much, in fact, that he lives in the future instead of in the past. His life is a race towards a goal. Now, just as in a race the runner forgets the ground gone over in his occupation with the remainder and the goal, so, in the spiritual life, there is a forgetfulness essential to progress. There is a river of Lethe in the city of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:12

Not as though I had already attained - This verse and the two following are full of allusions to the Grecian races. “The word rendered ‘attained’ signifies, to have arrived at the goal and won the prize, but without having as yet received it” - The Pictorial Bible. The meaning here is, I do not pretend to have attained to what I wish or hope to be. He had indeed been converted; he had been raised up from the death of sin; he had been imbued with spiritual life and peace; but there was a... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Philippians 3:12

Philippians 3:12. Not as though I had already attained Ουχ οτι ηδη ελαβον , literally, not that I have already received, namely, the blessings which I am in pursuit of, even that complete knowledge of Christ, of the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his sufferings, and conformity to his death just mentioned; either were already perfect Τετελειωμαι , perfected, completed: or had finished my course of duty and sufferings. It appears from Philippians 3:15, that there is a... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:1-16

3:1-21 THE WAY TO PERFECTIONPaul’s testimony (3:1-16)At this point Paul repeats warnings that he gave the Philippian church some time earlier concerning Judaisers. He calls the Judaisers ‘dogs’ because they like to ‘cut the flesh’ of people; that is, they insist that they must circumcise Gentiles before those Gentiles can be saved. The true people of God, whom Paul calls the ‘true circumcision’, are not those who have carried out a ceremony to put a mark in their bodies, but those who have... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Philippians 3:12

as though = that. had. Omit. attained = received. perfect = perfected. App-125 . follow after . Same as Philippians 3:6 (persecuting), and Philippians 3:14 (press). apprehend . Greek. katalambano. See John 1:5 .Ephesians 3:18 , The Greek adds "also", for. App-104 . also , Read after "apprehended". am = was. of = by. App-104 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.Not that I have already obtained ... Paul never viewed the Christian prize of eternal salvation as being something that one might "get" in any final and irrevocable act. The Pauline view, in evidence here, was that the Christian life was a race to be won, a life to be lived, a course to he completed, and that no one ever had it made... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Philippians 3:12

Philippians 3:12. Not as though I had already, &c.— "This I say not as if I had already attained to all that I wish to be, or were already perfected: for I am truly sensible how far I am from that consummate perfection of character, as well as of state, which the gospel teaches me to aspire after: but I pursue it, if by any means I may but reach that height of excellence for which also I am apprehended by Christ Jesus, whose condescending hand graciously laid hold on me in my mad career,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:12

12. Translate, "Not that I," c. (I do not wish to be understood as saying that, &c.). attained—"obtained," namely, a perfect knowledge of Christ, and of the power of His death, and fellowship of His sufferings, and a conformity to His death. either were already perfect—"or am already perfected," that is, crowned with the garland of victory, my course completed, and perfection absolutely reached. The image is that of a race course throughout. See 1 Corinthians 9:24 Hebrews 12:23. See TRENCH... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Philippians 3:12

Paul had said that he had not already grasped the intimate knowledge of His Savior that he sought to obtain (Philippians 3:10). He did not want his readers to understand him as saying that his conversion brought him into the intimate personal relationship with Christ that he desired. At conversion his views about what is important in life changed drastically, however. He did not believe he was perfect. There are some Christians who believe that after conversion they do not sin (cf. 1 John... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:12-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:12-16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Philippians 3:12

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:1-16

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Philippians 3:12

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Philippians 3:12

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Philippians 3:12

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Philippians 3:12

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