| Holman Christian Standard Bible | [an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write to you again about this is no trouble for me and is a protection for you. | 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 2Watch out for "dogs," watch out for evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh. | 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 3For we are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh-- | 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 4although I once also had confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: | 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 5circumcised the eighth day; of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; regarding the law, a Pharisee; | 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 6regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless. | 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 7But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. | 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 8More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ | 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 9and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ--the righteousness from God based on faith. | 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 10My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, | 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 11assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead. | 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 12Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. | 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 13Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, | 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 14I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus. | 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 15Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you. | 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 16In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained. | 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 17Join in imitating me, brothers, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us. | 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 18For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. | 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 19Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things, | 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 20but our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. | 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 21He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself. | 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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