Philippians 3
1 In conclusion, my friends, may all joy be yours in your union with the Lord. To repeat what I have already written does not weary me, and is the safe course for you.
Hennus forward, my britheren, haue ye ioye in the Lord. To write to you the same thingis, to me it is not slow, and to you it is necessarie.
2 Beware of those dogs! Beware of those mischievous workers! Beware of the men who mutilate themselves!
Se ye houndis, se ye yuele werk men, se ye dyuysioun.
3 For it is we who are the circumcised – we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely on external privileges;
For we ben circumcisioun, which bi spirit seruen to God, and glorien in Crist Jhesu, and han not trist in the fleisch,
4 though I, if anyone, have cause to rely even on them. If anyone thinks he can rely on external privileges, far more can I!
thouy Y haue trust, yhe, in the fleisch. If ony othere man is seyn to triste in the fleisch,
5 I was circumcised when eight days old; I am an Israelite by birth, and of the tribe of Benjamin; I am a Hebrew, and the child of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;
Y more, that was circumcidid in the eiytthe dai, of the kyn of Israel, of the lynage of Beniamyn, an Ebrew of Ebrewis, bi the lawe a Farisee,
6 as to zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; as to such righteousness as is due to Law, I proved myself blameless.
bi loue pursuynge the chirche of God, bi riytwisnesse that is in the lawe lyuynge with out playnt.
7 But all the things which I once held to be gains I have now, for the Christ’s sake, come to count as loss.
But whiche thingis weren to me wynnyngis, Y haue demed these apeyryngis for Crist.
8 More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as rubbish, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him;
Netheles Y gesse alle thingis to be peirement for the cleer science of Jhesu Crist my Lord. For whom Y made alle thingis peyrement, and Y deme as drit,
9 any righteousness that I have being, not the righteousness that results from Law, but the righteousness which comes through faith in Christ – the righteousness which is derived from God and is founded on faith.
that Y wynne Crist, and that Y be foundun in hym, not hauynge my riytwisnesse that is of the lawe, but that that is of the feith of Crist Jhesu, that is of God the riytwisnesse in feith,
10 Then indeed I will know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and all that it means to share his sufferings,
to knowe hym, and the vertu of his risyng ayen, and the felouschipe of his passioun, and be maad lijk to his deeth,
11 in the hope that, if I become like him in death, I may possibly attain to the resurrection from the dead.
if on ony maner Y come to the resurreccioun that is fro deth.
12 Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Not that now Y haue takun, or now am parfit; but Y sue, if in ony maner Y comprehende, in which thing also Y am comprehendid of Crist Jhesu.
13 For I, friends, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do – forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front,
Bretheren, Y deme me not that Y haue comprehendid; but o thing, Y foryete tho thingis that ben bihyndis, and stretche forth my silf to tho thingis that ben bifore,
14 I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.
and pursue to the ordeyned mede of the hiy clepyng of God in Crist Jhesu.
15 Let all of us, then, whose faith is mature, think this way. Then, if on any matter you think otherwise, God will make that also plain to you.
Therfor who euere we ben perfit, feele we this thing. And if ye vndurstonden in othere manere ony thing, this thing God schal schewe to you.
16 Only we are bound to order our lives by what we have already attained.
Netheles to what thing we han comun, that we vndurstonden the same thing, and that we perfitli dwelle in the same reule.
17 My friends, unite in following my example, and fix your eyes on those who are living by the pattern which we have set you.
Britheren, be ye my foleweris, and weyte ye hem that walken so, as ye han oure fourme.
18 For there are many – of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears – who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ.
For many walken, whiche Y haue seid ofte to you, but now Y wepinge seie, the enemyes of Cristis cros,
19 The end of such people is ruin; for their appetites are their God, and they glory in their shame; their minds are given up to earthly things.
who ende is deth, whos god is the wombe, and the glorie in confusioun of hem, that saueren ertheli thingis.
20 But we are citizens of heaven, and from heaven we expect a savior to come, the Lord Jesus Christ.
But oure lyuyng is in heuenes; fro whennus also we abiden the sauyour oure Lord Jhesu Crist,
21 By the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, he will make our humble bodies like his glorious body.
which schal reforme the bodi of oure mekenesse, that is maad lijk to the bodi of his clerenesse, bi the worching bi which he mai `also make alle thingis suget to hym.
