Verse 1. As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you it is necessary.
Verse 2. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Verse 3. For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God; and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.
Verse 4. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more,
Verse 5. Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee:
Verse 6. According to zeal, persecuting the church of God; according to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.
Verse 7. But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.
Verse 8. Furthermore I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ:
Verse 9. And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God, justice in faith:
Verse 10. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death,
Verse 11. If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from the dead.
Verse 12. Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect; but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus.
Verse 13. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one thing I do: forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth myself to those that are before,
Verse 14. I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.
Verse 15. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you.
Verse 16. Nevertheless whereunto we are come, that we be of the same mind, let us also continue in the same rule.
Verse 17. Be ye followers of me, brethren, and observe them who walk so as you have our model.
Verse 18. For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;
Verse 19. Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.
Verse 20. But our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,
Verse 21. Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.