Philippians 3

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1 But, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write to you about the same for me is not painful, but for you edifying.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of circumcision,
3 Because circumcision is we who serve God in the spirit and are glorying in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh,

4 Although I can hope for the flesh. If anyone else thinks to rely on the flesh, then more than I,
5 Circumcised on the eighth day, of the family of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, the Hebrew of the Hebrews, according to the doctrine of the Pharisee,
6th By jealousy - the persecutor of the Church of God, in truth the lawful - the undefiled.
7th But what for me was an advantage, then for Christ's sake I counted loss.
8 And I count everything as loss for the sake of excellence in the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord: for him I refused everything, and I esteem everything for rubbish in order to gain Christ

9 And to be found in Him not with his own righteousness, which is from the law, but with him that is through faith in Christ, with righteousness from God by faith;
10 To know him, and the power of his resurrection, and participation in his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
eleven To attain the resurrection of the dead.
12 [I say this], not because I have already reached, or have perfected; But I aspire, will not I reach, how did Christ Jesus attain me.
13 Brethren, I do not consider myself to be accomplished; But only, forgetting the back and stretching forward,
14 I aspire to the goal, to the honoring of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15 So, which of us is perfect, so must think; If you are thinking otherwise, then this is God who will reveal to you.
16 However, to what we have achieved, so we must also think according to that rule.

17th Imitate, brethren, me and look at those who act in the image that you have in us.
18 For many, of whom I have often told you, and now even with tears say, act as enemies of the cross of Christ.
19 Their end is destruction, their god is the womb, and their glory is in shame, they think about the earthly.
20 Our residence is in heaven, from where we also expect the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 Who will change our humiliated body so that it will be in accordance with his glorious body, by the power [by which] He acts and subdues everything to Himself.

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