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Philippians 3:11

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:11 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
  • BSB and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
  • NKJV if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
  • NASB if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
  • NLT so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • Luke 20:35–36But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
  • Rev 20:5The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
  • Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
  • Acts 26:7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
  • Heb 11:35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
  • 2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • Ps 49:7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
  • 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
  • 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
  • Luke 14:14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
  • Rom 11:14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
  • 2 Th 2:3Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
  • John 11:24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
  • Acts 27:12Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.
  • 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Philippians videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PhilippiansMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

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