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3:1  · Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again to you is no trouble for me, and it is a safeguard for you.
3:2  Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who practice mutilation.
3:3  For we are the true circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh—
3:4  even though I have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
3:5  circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews. In regard to the law, I was a Pharisee;
3:6  as for zeal, a persecutor of the church; as for the righteousness · set forth in the law, I was blameless.
3:7  But whatever things were gain to me, these I have come to regard as loss because of · Christ.
3:8  More than that, I regard all things as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus · my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of · all things and regard them as rubbish, in order to gain Christ
3:9  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that is based on · faith—
3:10  that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
3:11  if somehow I may attain the resurrection · from the dead.
3:12  Not that I have already obtained all this or have already reached my goal, but I press on in order to · make it my own because · Christ Jesus has made me his own.
3:13  Brothers, I do not consider to have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching out to what lies ahead,
3:14  I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
3:15  So those of us who are mature should take this point of view; and if in anything you think differently, that too · God will make known to you.
3:16  In any case, let us live up to what we have already attained. ·
3:17  Join in following my example, brothers, and pay close attention to those who are living this way, as you have us as an example.
3:18  For many are living (I have often told you about them but now tell you even with tears) as enemies of the cross of Christ.
3:19  Their · end is destruction, their · god is the belly, and they · glory in · their shame. Their minds are set on · earthly things.
3:20  But our · citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there · that we eagerly await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
3:21  who will transform · our lowly bodies · into the likeness of his glorious body, · by the power that also enables him to subject all things to himself. ·