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Righteousness through Faith
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Watch out for those dogs, those people who do evil, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
though I could have confidence in my own effort if anyone could. Indeed, if others have reason for confidence in their own efforts, I have even more!
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a pure-blooded citizen of Israel and a member of the tribe of Benjamin — a real Hebrew if there ever was one! I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law.
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault.
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.
Knowing Christ is Above All
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death,
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Pressing toward the Goal
I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.
Press on Toward the Goal
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you.
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
But we must hold on to the progress we have already made.
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those who follow our example.
Citizenship in Heaven
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
They are headed for destruction. Their god is their appetite, they brag about shameful things, and they think only about this life here on earth.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.