Philippians 3
1 Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you, and it is a safeguard for you.
2 Watch out for the dogs; watch out for the evil workers; watch out for the mutilation.
3 For we are the circumcision: we who worship by the Spirit of God, take pride in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I too have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he can put confidence in the flesh, I can do so even more.
5 Circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee.
6 As to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness found in the Law, blameless.
7 But whatever was gain to me, I have considered loss because of Christ.
8 More than that, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and I consider it rubbish, so that I may gain Christ.
9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, the kind that comes from the Law, but the righteousness that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.
10 This is so that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and share in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.
11 This is so that, somehow, I may attain to the resurrection from among the dead.
12 Not that I have already reached it or have already been made perfect; but I press on to see whether I may attain what I was also taken hold of by Christ Jesus for.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I myself have already reached it. But I do one thing: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of God's upward call in Christ Jesus.
15 So let all of us who are mature think this way; and if you think differently about anything, God will reveal that to you as well.
16 Still, let us keep in step with the same standard we have already reached.
17 Join together in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and watch those who live according to the example you have in us.
18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. I have often told you about them, and now I tell you even with tears.
19 Their end is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, and from there we also eagerly await the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
21 He will transform our humble body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him to subject all things to himself.
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