Philippians 3
1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in [the] Lord: to write the same things to you, to me [is] not irksome, and for you safe.
2 Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.
3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
For we are the circumcision, who worship by [the] Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.
4 though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
Though I have [my] trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, I rather:
5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
as to circumcision, [I received it] the eighth day; of [the] race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee;
6 as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which [is] in [the] law, found blameless;
7 But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.
8 More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;
9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which [would be] on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which [is] of God through faith,
10 I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,
to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among [the] dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Not that I have already obtained [the prize], or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession [of it], seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].
13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing — forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.
15 All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.
As many therefore as [are] perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you.
16 Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained.
But whereto we have attained, [let us] walk in the same steps.
17 Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.
Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;
18 For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they [are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly, and [their] glory in their shame, who mind earthly things: )
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
for our commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,
21 who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of [the] power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.
