¹Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, but for you it is safe.

²Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;

³For we ourselves are the circumcision, those worshiping in the Spirit of God and glorying in the Anointed One Jesus, and not having put confidence in the flesh,

⁴though I myself have confidence even in the flesh. If any other thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I myself more:

⁵circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, according to the Law a Pharisee,

⁶according to zeal persecuting the assembly, according to righteousness which is in the Law having become faultless.

⁷But whatever things were gain to me, these I have esteemed loss because of the Anointed One;

⁸but rather I count all things also to be loss because of the excelling knowledge of the Anointed One Jesus my Lord, because of whom I have lost the all things and esteem them to be rubbish, that I may gain the Anointed One

⁹and may be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is of the Law, but that which is through the faithfulness of the Anointed One, the righteousness of God on the basis of the trust,

¹⁰to know Him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

¹¹if somehow I shall attain to the resurrection that is out from the dead.

¹²Not that I have already obtained it or have already been perfected, but I am pursuing if even I shall grasp that for which also I was grasped by the Anointed One Jesus.

¹³Brothers, I myself do not consider to have grasped it; but one thing: forgetting indeed the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead,

¹⁴I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward calling of God in the Anointed One Jesus.

¹⁵Therefore as many as are mature, let us reason this way; and if you reason anything differently, even this God will reveal to you;

¹⁶nevertheless, to that which we have attained, by the same we are to walk by rule and by the same reasoning.

¹⁷Be imitators together of me, brothers, and observe those walking thus, even as you have us for a pattern.

¹⁸For many are walking — of whom often I was telling you, and now even weeping I say — as the enemies of the cross of the Anointed One,

¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose God is the belly, and the glory is in their shame, minding earthly things.

²⁰For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from whence also we are awaiting a Savior, the Lord Jesus the Anointed One,

²¹who will transform the body of our humiliation to become it conformed to the body of the glory of Himself, according to the working of the enabling in Him even to subdue to Him the all things.