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| 1So then, my brothers, keep on rejoicing in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you; indeed, it is for your safety. | 1Finally, 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. |
| 2Beware of the dogs! Beware of the evil workers! Beware of the mutilators! | 2Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! |
| 3For it is we who are the circumcision —we who worship in the Spirit of God and find our joy in the Messiah Jesus. We have not placed any confidence in the flesh, | 3For 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— |
| 4although I could have confidence in the flesh. If anyone thinks he can place confidence in the flesh, I have more reason to think so. | 4though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: |
| 5Having been circumcised on the eighth day, I am of the nation of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As far as the Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee. | 5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; |
| 6As for my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church. As far as righteousness in the Law is concerned, I was blameless. | 6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless. |
| 7But whatever things were assets to me, these I now consider a loss for the sake of the Messiah. | 7But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ. |
| 8What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah | 8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ |
| 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but one that comes through the faithfulness of the Messiah, the righteousness that comes from God and that depends on faith. | 9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith. |
| 10I want to know the Messiah —what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, | 10I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death, |
| 11though I hope to experience the resurrection from the dead. | 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. |
| 12It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus. | 12Not 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. |
| 13Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it yet. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, | 13Brothers, 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, |
| 14I keep pursuing the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly call in the Messiah Jesus. | 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus. |
| 15Therefore, those of us who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will show you how to think. | 15All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well. |
| 16However, we should live up to what we have achieved so far. | 16Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained. |
| 17Join together in imitating me, brothers, and pay close attention to those who live by the example we have set for you. | 17Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you. |
| 18For I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of the Messiah. | 18For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. |
| 19Their destiny is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on worldly things. | 19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things. |
| 20Our citizenship, however, is in heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. | 20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 21He will change our unassuming bodies and make them like his glorious body through the power that enables him to bring everything under his authority. | 21who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body. |
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