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3:1  Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. I do not mind writing the same things to you again; it is for your safety.
3:2  Beware of the dogs! Beware of evil-doers! Beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
3:3  For we are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God and who boast in Christ Jesus and do not place any confidence in the flesh—
3:4  even though I too have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone thinks that he has reasons to be confident in the flesh, I have more!
3:5  I was circumcised on the eighth day of my life. I was one of the people of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew and the son of Hebrews. In regard to the Law, I was a Pharisee;
3:6  in regard to religious zeal, I was a persecutor of the Church; in regard to righteousness under the Law, I was without fault.
3:7  All these I once regarded as assets, but now I have come to regard them as losses because of Christ.
3:8  Even more than that, I count everything as loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake, I have suffered the loss of all other things, and I regard them as so much rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
3:9  and be found in him. I do not wish to have any righteousness of my own based on the Law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness given by God in response to faith.
3:10  All I want is to come to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share in his sufferings by becoming conformed to his death,
3:11  so that I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
3:12  It is not that I have already attained this or have yet reached perfection. But I press on to take hold of that for which Christ once took hold of me.
3:13  Brethren, I do not claim to have taken hold of it as yet. Only this one thing: forgetting what is behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
3:14  I press on toward the finishing line to win the heavenly prize to which God has called me in Christ Jesus.
3:15  Those of us who are mature should adopt this same attitude. If on any matter you have a different point of view, this too God will make clear to you.
3:16  Only let us hold fast in our conduct to what we have already attained.
3:17  Brethren, join in imitating me, and take note of those who conduct themselves in accord with the model you have in us.
3:18  As I have told you before, and now remind you with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
3:19  Their end is destruction. Their god is their stomach. Their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
3:20  But our citizenship is in heaven, and from there we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
3:21  He will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be conformed to his glorified body by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.