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Philippians Chapter 3

¹Finally, 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.

²Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

³For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in AnointedOne Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; ⁴though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: ⁵circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; ⁶concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

⁷However, those things that were gain to me, I now consider as damage on account of the AnointedOne.

⁸Yes most certainly, and I count all things as damage for the excellency of the knowledge of AnointedOne Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but filth, that I may gain the AnointedOne ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, what is of the law, but what is through faith in the AnointedOne, the righteousness which is from God by faith, ¹⁰that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death, ¹¹if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

¹²Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by AnointedOne Jesus.

¹³Brothers, 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, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in AnointedOne Jesus.

¹⁵So let us, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

¹⁶Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let's walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.

¹⁷Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

¹⁸For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of the AnointedOne, ¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

²⁰For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus AnointedOne, ²¹who 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.