Philippians 3

{As to} the rest, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write these same things to you {is} no trouble, and {is} a safeguard for you.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the mutilation.

For we are the circumcision—the ones worshiping by the Spirit of God and boasting in Christ Jesus and not being confident in the flesh, \*

although I myself having confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else thinks to be confident in the flesh, I even more:

circumcision on the eighth day, from the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee; \*

according to zeal, persecuting the church; according to righteousness {that is} in the law, having become blameless.

Whatever things were gains for me, I consider these things loss for the sake of Christ. \*

But on the contrary, I consider even all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I have suffered the loss of all things—and I consider {them} dung—so that I might gain Christ

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness {that is} from law, but {that which is} through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God by faith—

to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

if, in some way, I might attain to the resurrection {that is} from the dead. \*

Not that I already received {it}, or have already been made perfect, but I am pursuing {it}, if perhaps I might also grasp that for which I was also grasped by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have grasped {it}. But one thing: forgetting {what is} behind and straining for {what is} ahead,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus. \*

Therefore, as many as {are} perfect should think this {way}; and if you think differently about anything, God will also reveal that to you.

However, in what we have attained, we should live in it. \*

Become imitators of me, brothers, and watch closely the ones walking in this manner, just as you have us {as} an example.

For many walk—about whom I have often told you, but now even weeping, I say—{as} the enemies of the cross of Christ,

whose end {is} destruction, whose god {is their} belly, and {whose} glory {is} in their shame, the ones thinking about earthly things. \*

But our citizenship exists in heaven, from where we also eagerly await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

who will transform our lowly body to conformity to his glorious body, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself. \*