3Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a safeguard.G3063G3450G80G5463G1722G2962G1125G846G5213G1698G3303G3756G3636G1161G5213G8042Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!G991G2965G991G2556G2040G991G26993For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh—G1063G2249G2070G4061G3588G3000G2316G4151G2532G2744G1722G5547G2424G2532G3982G3756G3982G1722G45614even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more:G2539G1473G2192G2532G2192G4006G1722G4561G1536G243G1380G3982G1722G4561G1473G31235circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;G4061G3637G1537G1085G2474G5443G958G1445G1537G1445G2596G3551G53306as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.G2596G2205G1377G1577G2596G1343G3588G1722G3551G1096G2737Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.G235G3748G2258G2771G3427G5023G2233G2209G1223G55478More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain ChristG235G3304G2532G2233G3956G2209G1511G1223G5242G1108G5547G2424G3450G2962G1223G3739G2210G3956G2532G2233G1511G4657G2443G2770G55479and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.G2532G2147G1722G846G3361G2192G1699G1343G3588G1537G3551G235G3588G1223G4102G5547G1343G3588G1537G2316G1909G410210I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,G1097G846G2532G1411G846G386G2532G2842G846G3804G4833G846G228811if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.G1513G2658G1519G1815G3498
Pressing toward the Goal
12Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.G3756G3754G2235G2983G2228G2235G5048G1161G1377G1499G2638G1909G3739G2532G2638G5259G5547G242413Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,G80G1473G3049G3756G1683G2638G1161G1520G1950G3303G3694G1161G1901G171514I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.G1377G2596G4649G1909G1017G507G2821G2316G1722G5547G242415Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you.G5426G3767G3745G5046G5426G5124G5426G2532G1536G5426G2088G5426G2316G601G2532G5124G521316Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.G4133G1519G3739G5348G4748G846G2583G5426G84617Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us.G80G1096G4831G3450G2532G4648G4043G3779G2531G2192G2248G517918For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.G1063G4183G4043G3739G3004G5213G4178G1161G3568G3004G2532G2799G2190G4716G554719Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.G3739G5056G684G3739G2316G2836G2532G1391G1722G846G152G3588G5426G191920But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.G1063G2257G4175G5225G1722G3772G1537G3739G2532G553G4990G2962G2424G554721He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.G3739G3345G2257G5014G4983G1519G846G1096G4832G846G1391G4983G2596G1753G846G1410G2532G5293G3956G1438
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