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1Finally, 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 source of steadfastness.
2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh![#2 Cor 11.13; Gal 5.15; #3.2 Gk the mutilation]
3For 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—[#Rom 2.28, 29; Gal 6.14, 15; #3.3 Other ancient authorities read worship God in spirit]
4even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh.
If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more:
5circumcised 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;[#Rom 11.1; 2 Cor 11.22]
6as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
7Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.[#Mt 13.44; Lk 14.33]
8More 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 Christ[#Eph 4.13; 2 Pet 1.3]
9and 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.[#Rom 10.5; #3.9 Or through the faith of Christ]
10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,[#3.10 Gk him]
11if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.[#Acts 26.7]
12Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal, but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ has laid hold of me.[#Acts 9.5, 6; 1 Tim 6.12; #3.12 Or have already been made perfect; #3.12 Other ancient authorities read Christ Jesus]
13Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have laid hold of it, but one thing I have laid hold of: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,[#Lk 9.62; 1 Cor 9.24; #3.13 Other ancient authorities read yet laid hold]
14I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.[#2 Tim 1.9; Heb 6.1; #3.14 Gk upward]
15Let those of us, then, who are mature think this way, and if you think differently about anything, this, too, God will reveal to you.[#1 Cor 2.6; Gal 5.10; #3.15 Or perfect]
16Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.[#Rom 12.16; Gal 6.16]
17Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us.[#1 Cor 4.16; 1 Pet 5.3]
18For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.[#Acts 20.31; Gal 6.14]
19Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.[#Rom 16.18; 2 Cor 11.15]
20But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.[#3.20 Or commonwealth]
21He 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.[#1 Cor 15.43; Eph 1.19; #3.21 Or our humble bodies; #3.21 Or his glorious body]