Paul's LettersNew Testament
Chapter 3· Book XI of 27
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.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. 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision. 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.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: 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ. 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a 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 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.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; 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death; 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.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. 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.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, 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind. 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example. 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, 19Verse 19. Open verse actions.whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. 20Verse 20. Open verse actions.For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21Verse 21. Open verse actions.who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.