Philippians 3
1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in our Lord. To write these things again and again to you, is not irksome to me, because they make you cautious.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs; beware of evil doers; beware of the clipped in flesh.
Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.
3 For we are the real circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Jesus the Messiah, and place no reliance on the flesh.
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Messiah Yeshua, and have no confidence in the flesh;
4 And yet I might place reliance on the flesh. For, if any one thinketh that his reliance should be on the flesh, I might do so more than he.
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
5 Circumcised when eight days old; of the stock of Israel; of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, descendant of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; and as to the righteousness of the law, I was without fault.
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
7 But these things, which had been my excellence, I have accounted a detriment, because of the Messiah.
However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Messiah.
8 And now also I account them all a detriment, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus the Messiah my Lord; for the sake of whom, I have parted with all things, and have accounted them as dung, that I might gain the Messiah,
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Messiah Yeshua, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Messiah
9 and be found in him; since my righteousness is not now that from the law, but that which is from faith in the Messiah, that is, the righteousness which is from God;
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
10 that thereby I might know Jesus, and the efficacy of his resurrection; and might participate in his sufferings, and be assimilated to his death:
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
11 if so be, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not as though I had already taken the prize, or were already complete; but I run in the race, if so I may take that, for which Jesus the Messiah took me.
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Messiah Yeshua.
13 My brethren, I do not consider myself, as having taken it. But one thing I know, that I forget the things behind me, and reach for the things before me;
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
14 and I run straight for the goal, that I may obtain the prize of victory of the call of God from on high, by Jesus the Messiah.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.
15 Therefore let those who are perfect, have these views; and if ye differently view any thing, God will reveal that also to you.
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
16 Nevertheless, that we may attain to this, let us proceed on in one path, and with one consent.
Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
17 Be like me, my brethren; and contemplate them, who walk after the pattern ye have seen in us.
Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
18 For there are many who walk otherwise; of whom I have often told you, and I now tell you, with weeping, that they are adversaries of the cross of the Messiah;
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Messiah,
19 whose end is destruction; whose god is their belly, and their glory their shame; whose thoughts are on things of the earth.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
20 But our concern is with heaven; and from thence we expect our Vivifier, our Lord, Jesus the Messiah;
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah,
21 who will change the body of our abasement, that it may have the likeness of the body of his glory, according to his great power, whereby all things are made subject to him.
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
