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Philippians - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
- Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
- For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
- though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
- circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
- concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
- However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
- Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
- and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
- that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
- if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
- Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
- Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
- I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
- Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
- Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.
- Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
- For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
- whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
- For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
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