Philippians 3:9-14 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

9. and to belong to him. Now that I belong to Christ, I am right with God and this being right does not come from my following the law. It comes from God through faith. God uses my faith in Christ to make me right with him.

10. All I want is to know Christ and the power of his rising from death. I want to share in Christ’s sufferings and become like him in his death.

11. If I have those things, then I have hope that I myself will be raised from death.

12. I do not mean that I am already as God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal. But I continue trying to reach it and to make it mine. Christ wants me to do that. That is the reason Christ made me his.

13. Brothers, I know that I have not yet reached that goal. But there is one thing I always do: I forget the things that are past. I try as hard as I can to reach the goal that is before me.

14. I keep trying to reach the goal and get the prize. That prize is mine because God called me through Christ to the life above.

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