Philippians Chapter 3
1 Finally my family⁺: Rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is indeed not grievous to me. But for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs. Beware of evil workers. Beware of division⁺.
3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If anyone⁺ else thinks that they have reason⁺ to trust in the flesh, I have more.
5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and concerning the law, a Pharisee.
6 As concerning zeal, I was persecuting the church~. As touching the righteousness that is in the law, I was blameless.
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for the sake of Christ.
8 Yes doubtless. And I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung so that I may win Christ
9 and be found in Him. For I do not have any righteousness of my own from obedience to the law, but only through faith in Christ, righteousness from God by faith.
10 so that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death.
11 If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead,
12 not as though I had already attained or had already become perfect~, but I follow after so that I may attain⁺ that for which I am claimed⁺ by Christ Jesus.
13 Family⁺, I do not count myself to have attained⁺ everything, but this one thing I do: Forgetting those things that are behind and reaching forth to those things that are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore let us, as many as be perfect~, be thus minded. If, in anything, you are otherwise minded, God will reveal this to you.
16 Nevertheless, in what we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us mind the same thing.
17 Family⁺, be followers together with me. Note⁺ those who walk in this way, as you have us for an example.
18 For many walk, of whom I have often told you, and now I tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
19 Their end will be destruction. Their God is their belly. And those who mind earthly things glory in their shame.
20 For our conversation~ and conduct is in heaven. From there we also look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ
21 who will change our vile body so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the work by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.