Philippians 3

3Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.G3063G3450G80G5463G1722G2962G1125G846G5213G1698G3303G3756G3636G1161G5213G8042Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh.G991G2965G991G2556G2040G991G26993For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh--G1063G2249G2070G4061G3588G3000G2316G4151G2532G2744G1722G5547G2424G2532G3982G3756G3982G1722G45614though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:G2539G1473G2192G2532G2192G4006G1722G4561G1536G243G1380G3982G1722G4561G1473G31235circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;G4061G3637G1537G1085G2474G5443G958G1445G1537G1445G2596G3551G53306as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.G2596G2205G1377G1577G2596G1343G3588G1722G3551G1096G2737But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.G235G3748G2258G2771G3427G5023G2233G2209G1223G55478What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain ChristG235G3304G2532G2233G3956G2209G1511G1223G5242G1108G5547G2424G3450G2962G1223G3739G2210G3956G2532G2233G1511G4657G2443G2770G55479and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.G2532G2147G1722G846G3361G2192G1699G1343G3588G1537G3551G235G3588G1223G4102G5547G1343G3588G1537G2316G1909G410210I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,G1097G846G2532G1411G846G386G2532G2842G846G3804G4833G846G228811and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.G1513G2658G1519G1815G349812Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.G3756G3754G2235G2983G2228G2235G5048G1161G1377G1499G2638G1909G3739G2532G2638G5259G5547G242413Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,G80G1473G3049G3756G1683G2638G1161G1520G1950G3303G3694G1161G1901G171514I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.G1377G2596G4649G1909G1017G507G2821G2316G1722G5547G242415All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.G5426G3767G3745G5046G5426G5124G5426G2532G1536G5426G2088G5426G2316G601G2532G5124G521316Only let us live up to what we have already attained.G4133G1519G3739G5348G4748G846G2583G5426G84617Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you.G80G1096G4831G3450G2532G4648G4043G3779G2531G2192G2248G517918For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.G1063G4183G4043G3739G3004G5213G4178G1161G3568G3004G2532G2799G2190G4716G554719Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things.G3739G5056G684G3739G2316G2836G2532G1391G1722G846G152G3588G5426G191920But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,G1063G2257G4175G5225G1722G3772G1537G3739G2532G553G4990G2962G2424G554721who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.G3739G3345G2257G5014G4983G1519G846G1096G4832G846G1391G4983G2596G1753G846G1410G2532G5293G3956G1438