Philippians 3:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀδελφοί, ἐγὼ ἐμαυτὸν οὐ λογίζομαι κατειληφέναι: ἓν δέ, τὰ μὲν ὀπίσω ἐπιλανθανόμενος, τοῖς δὲ ἔμπροσθεν ἐπεκτεινόμενος,

Transliteration

Adelphoi, egō emauton not logizomai kateilēphenai: one thing de, the things men opisō epilanthanomenos, to the things de emprosthen epekteinomenos,

Grammar Details

• *Adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *egō*: nominative, 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *emauton*: accusative, masculine, singular, reflexive pronoun - myself
• *logizomai*: indicative, present, middle, 1st person singular - I consider/reckon
• *kateilēphenai*: infinitive, perfect, active - to have seized/laid hold of
• *men*: particle marking contrast with following *de* - on one hand
• *opisō*: adverb - behind/back
• *epilanthanomenos*: participle, present, middle, nominative, masculine, singular - forgetting
• *de*: particle - on the other hand/but
• *emprosthen*: adverb - ahead/in front
• *epekteinomenos*: participle, present, middle, nominative, masculine, singular - reaching out/stretching forward

Word Meanings

• *logizomai*: consider/reckon/count
• *kateilēphenai*: to have seized/laid hold of/attained
• *epilanthanomenos*: forgetting/disregarding/neglecting
• *epekteinomenos*: reaching out/stretching forward/straining toward

Referenced Verses

• Luke 9:62 : 62 and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
• Heb 12:1-2 : 1 Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, 2 looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
• Heb 6:1 : 1 Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,
• Phil 3:8 : 8 yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
• Phil 3:12 : 12 Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;
• 1 Cor 9:24-27 : 24 have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; 25 and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; 26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; 27 but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.
• Phil 2:12 : 12 So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,
• Ps 27:4 : 4 One `thing' I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
• Ps 45:10 : 10 Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,
• Luke 10:42 : 42 but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'
• 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;
• Phil 1:18-21 : 18 what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed -- and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice. 19 For I have known that this shall fall out to me for salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus, 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death, 21 for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain.
• Phil 4:11-13 : 11 not that in respect of want I say `it', for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content; 12 I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. 13 For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;
• Rom 15:23-29 : 23 and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years, 24 when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled. 25 And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints; 26 for it pleased Macedonia and Achaia well to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who `are' in Jerusalem; 27 for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them. 28 This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain; 29 and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.
• 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord `is' as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;