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3:1  Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things again to you, and it is a safeguard for you.
3:2  Beware of the dogs. Beware of the evildoers. Beware of the mutilation.
3:3  For we are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who are confident in Christ Jesus, and who place no confidence in the flesh,
3:4  even though I have grounds for confidence also in the flesh. If anyone else thinks that he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
3:5  circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;
3:6  in regard to zeal, persecuting the church; in regard to the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.
3:7  But, whatever things were a profit for me, these things I have come to consider a loss because of Christ.
3:8  But even more than that, I consider everything to be a loss because of what is worth far more: knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. For his sake, I have lost all things and consider them rubbish, so that I may gain Christ
3:9  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, which comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God by faith.
3:10  I do this so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
3:11  in the hope that in some way I may arrive at the resurrection from the dead.
3:12  Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus also took hold of me.
3:13  Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it yet, but there is one thing I do: Forgetting the things that are behind and straining toward the things that are ahead,
3:14  I press on toward the goal, for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
3:15  Therefore, let all of us who are mature continue to think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this to you too.
3:16  Only let us think the same thing and walk in line with what we already have attained.
3:17  Brothers, join together in imitating me and in paying attention to those who are walking according to the pattern we gave you.
3:18  To be sure, many walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. I told you about them often, and now I am saying it while weeping.
3:19  Their end is destruction, their god is their appetite, and their glory is in their shame. They are thinking only about earthly things.
3:20  But our citizenship is in heaven. We are eagerly waiting for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
3:21  By the power that enables him to subject all things to himself, he will transform our humble bodies to be like his glorious body.