Philippians 3
1 In conclusion, my brethren, be joyful in the Lord. For me to give you the same warnings as before is not irksome to me, while so far as you are concerned it is a safe precaution.
As to the rest, my brothers, rejoice in the LORD; indeed, [it] is not tiresome to me to write to you the same things, and for you [is] sure.
2 Beware of 'the dogs,' the bad workmen, the self-mutilators.
Look out for the dogs! Look out for the evil-workers! Look out for the mutilation!
3 For we are the true circumcision--we who render to God a spiritual worship and make our boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in outward ceremonies:
For we are the circumcision, who are serving God by the Spirit, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and having no trust in flesh,
4 although I myself might have some excuse for confidence in outward ceremonies. If any one else claims a right to trust in them, far more may I:
though I also have [cause of] trust in flesh. If any other one thinks to have trust in flesh, I more:
5 circumcised, as I was, on the eighth day, a member of the race of Israel and of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew sprung from Hebrews; as to the Law a Pharisee;
circumcision on the eighth day! Of the race of Israel! Of the tribe of Benjamin! A Hebrew of Hebrews! According to law—a Pharisee!
6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the Church; as to the righteousness which comes through Law, blameless.
According to zeal—persecuting the Assembly! According to righteousness that is in law—becoming blameless!
7 Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss.
But what things were gains to me, these I have counted loss, because of the Christ;
8 Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,
yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered loss of all things, and count them to be refuse, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him,
9 not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ--the righteousness which comes from God through faith.
not having my righteousness, which [is] of law, but that which [is] through faith from Christ—the righteousness that is of God by faith,
10 I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection, and to share in His sufferings and die even as He died;
to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11 in the hope that I may attain to the resurrection from among the dead.
if anyhow I may attain to the resurrection of the dead.
12 I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
Not that I already obtained, or have already been perfected, but I pursue, if I also may lay hold of that for which I was also laid hold of by Christ Jesus;
13 Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,
brothers, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold [of it], but one thing [I do]—indeed forgetting the things behind, and stretching forth to the things before—
14 with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
I pursue to the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore let all of us who are mature believers cherish these thoughts; and if in any respect you think differently, that also God will make clear to you.
As many, therefore, as [are] perfect—let us think this, and if [in] anything you think otherwise, this also will God reveal to you,
16 But whatever be the point that we have already reached, let us persevere in the same course.
but to what we have attained—walk by the same rule, think the same thing;
17 Brethren, vie with one another in imitating me, and carefully observe those who follow the example which we have set you.
together become my followers, brothers, and observe those thus walking, according as you have us—a pattern;
18 For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ.
for many walk of whom I told you [about] many times—and now also weeping tell—[they are] the enemies of the Cross of the Christ,
19 Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted to earthly things.
whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly, and whose glory [is] in their shame, who are minding the things on earth.
20 We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
For our citizenship is in the heavens, from where we also await a Savior—the Lord Jesus Christ—
21 who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject all things to Himself, will transform this body of our humiliation until it resembles His own glorious body.
who will transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working of His power, even to subject all things to Himself.
