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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,

KJV

ἀλλὰ μενοῦνγε καὶ ἡγοῦμαι πάντα ζημίαν εἶναι διὰ τὸ ὑπερέχον τῆς γνώσεως Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ κυρίου μου, δι’ ὃν τὰ πάντα ἐζημιώθην, καὶ ἡγοῦμαι σκύβαλα ἵνα Χριστὸν κερδήσω

Greek NT

Verumtamen existimo omnia detrimentum esse propter eminentem scientiam Jesu Christi Domini mei : propter quem omnia detrimentum feci, et arbitror ut stercora, ut Christum lucrifaciam,

Vulgate

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

ASV

Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

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In the original Greek

20 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
γνῶσις
gnosis
noun · 29×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ζημία
zemia
noun · 4×
ζημιόω
zemioo
verb · 6×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κερδαίνω
kerdaino
verb · 16×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
μενοῦνγε
menounge
particle · 4×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σκύβαλον
skubalon
noun · 1×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἡγέομαι
egeomai
verb · 28×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑπερέχω
uperecho
verb · 5×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: μενοῦνγε | WH/NIV: μενοῦνγε | Treg/RP: μέν οὖν
  • μενοῦνγε — SBLGNT
  • μενοῦνγε — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • μέν οὖν — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: σκύβαλα | WH/Treg/NIV: σκύβαλα | RP: + εἶναι
  • σκύβαλα — SBLGNT
  • σκύβαλα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + εἶναι — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

13 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§133The Church "forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful... to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.112
§428Whoever is called "to teach Christ" must first seek "the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus"; he must suffer "the loss of all things. . ." in order to "gain Christ and be found in him", and "to know him and the power of his resurrection, and (to) share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that if possible (he) may attain the resurrection from the dead".17
§2653The Church "forcefully and specially exhorts all the Christian faithful . . . to learn 'the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ' (⇒ Phil 3:8) by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures.... Let them remember, however, that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that a dialogue takes place between God and man. For 'we speak to him when we pray; we li…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210216.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Chapter 4.—About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and About the Things Hannah the Mother of Samuel Prophesied, Personating the Church. Therefore the advance of the city of God, where it reached the times of the kings, yielded a figure, when, on the rejection of Saul, David first obtained the kingdom on such a footing that thenceforth his descendan…
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…
Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation. By evangelical humiliation I mean a sense that a Christian has of his own utter insufficiency, despicableness, and odiousness, with an answerable frame of heart. This is quite a different thing from legal humiliation, which is merely the terror of God's wrath without a sense of one's own vileness as a sinner against…
We believe that Jesus Christ is a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek—made such by an oath—and that he presented himself in our name before his Father, to appease his Father's wrath with full satisfaction by offering himself on the tree of the cross and pouring out his precious blood for the cleansing of our sins, as the prophets had predicted. For it is w…
Those whom God effectually calls He also freely justifies, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous — not for anything wrought in them or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them as their righteou…
The true Gnostic is not the heretical sectarian who claims secret knowledge but the mature Christian who has progressed from faith to knowledge, from milk to solid food. Such a person knows the deep things of God, not through esoteric ritual but through Scripture, prayer, and the disciplined life. Clement reclaims the word "gnosis" from the heretics and defines it as the perfec…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 2:2 — For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
  • 1Cor 2:2 — For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
  • 1Cor 4:9 — For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
  • 1Cor 9:10 — Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
  • 1Cor 12:31 — But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
  • 1John 1:3 — That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
  • 1John 2:19 — They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
  • 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
  • 1Pet 2:7 — Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
  • 2Cor 4:4 — In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
  • 2Cor 4:6 — For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • 2Cor 11:23 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
  • 2Kgs 9:37 — And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
  • 2Pet 1:2 — Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
  • 2Pet 1:3 — According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
  • 2Pet 3:18 — But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
  • 2Pet 3:18 — But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
  • 2Tim 1:12 — For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against th
  • 2Tim 4:6 — For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
  • Acts 20:24 — But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel
  • Col 2:2 — That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of C
  • Col 2:2 — That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of C
  • Eccl 7:12 — For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
  • Eph 1:17 — That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
  • Eph 3:8 — Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
  • Eph 3:18 — May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
  • Eph 3:18 — May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
  • Eph 4:13 — Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
  • Eph 4:13 — Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
  • Heb 3:14 — For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
  • Hos 2:20 — I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
  • Isa 45:17 — But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
  • Isa 51:7 — Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
  • Isa 53:11 — He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
  • Isa 53:11 — He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
  • Jer 9:23 — Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
  • Job 2:4 — And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
  • John 10:14 — I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
  • John 14:7 — If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
  • John 14:20 — At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.