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No Confidence in the Flesh
Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.
Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh —
though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:
though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
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;
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
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 depends on faith —
I want to know Christ — yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Straining Toward the Goal
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Following Paul’s Example
All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
Only let us hold true to what we have attained.
Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,