Philippians, Chapter 3

1. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not burdensome, but for you it is safe.    2. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of those who cut the flesh.    3. For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.    4. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other person thinks that he has a reason to trust in the flesh, I more:    5. Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; with respect to the law, a Pharisee;    6. Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.    7. But those things that were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ.    8. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them but filthy garbage, that I may win Christ,    9. And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:    10. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made like his death;    11. If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.    12. Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I pursue it, if I may take hold of that for which also I am taken hold of by Christ Jesus.    13. Brethren, I do not count myself to have taken hold of it: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and straining forward to those things which are ahead,    14. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.    15. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.    16. Nevertheless, in those things that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.    17. Brethren, be followers together of me, and take note of those who walk as you have us for an example.    18. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:    19. Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)    20. For our conduct is in heaven; from which also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:    21. Who shall change our lowly body, that it may be fashioned like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.