Philippians 3
3:1To the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord! The same things to write to you, to me indeed is not laziness, but for you safe.
3:2Take heed of the dogs! Take heed of the evil workers! Take heed to the circumcisers!
3:3For we are the circumcision, the ones serving in spirit of God, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and not relying in flesh;
3:4though I have reliance even in flesh. If any other thinks to rely in flesh, I more.
3:5As to circumcision -- on the eight day; of the race -- of Israel; as to tribe -- Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; according to law -- a Pharisee;
3:6according to zeal -- persecuting the assembly; according to righteousness, the one in the law -- having become blameless.
3:7But what was to me gain, these I esteemed loss through the Christ.
3:8But certainly also I esteem all things to be loss on account of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, through whom all things I suffered loss, and esteem them to be dung, that I should gain Christ,
3:9and I should be found in him not having my righteousness, that is of the law, but the one through belief of Christ, the righteousness of God unto the belief;
3:10to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformable to his death;
3:11if by any means I should arrive at the resurrection of the dead.
3:12Not that already I received, or already I have been perfected; but I pursue, if even I should overtake upon which also I was overtaken by the Christ -- Jesus.
3:13Brethren, I myself consider not to have overtaken; but in forgetting indeed the things behind, but the things in front stretching out farther,
3:14towards the aim I pursue unto the victory prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.
3:15As many as then are complete, should think this; and if any think differently, also this God will reveal to you.
3:16Besides, in what we attained, by the same rule we are to conform to think the same.
3:17Become imitators together of me, brethren, and watch the ones thus walking! as you have us for a model.
3:18For many walk whom often I told you, and now even weeping I tell -- the enemies of the cross of Christ;
3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory is in their shame, the ones thinking earthly things.
3:20For of us the citizenship in the heavens exists, of which also we await a deliverer -- the Lord Jesus Christ,
3:21who will change the body appearance of our humiliation, for its becoming conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation of his being able, and to subject to himself the whole.