Philippians 3 — GMV

3 Verse 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write this to you again is no trouble for me, and it is safe for you. ^{Verse 2} Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh. ^{Verse 3} For we are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh, ^{Verse 4} even though I myself might put confidence in the flesh. If anyone else presumes to have confidence in the flesh, I have more: ^{Verse 5} 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; ^{Verse 6} as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. ^{Verse 7} But whatever was gain to me I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. ^{Verse 8} More than that, I count all things as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish so that I may gain Christ ^{Verse 9} and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but the righteousness that is through faith in Christ, which comes from God on the basis of faith. ^{Verse 10} I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ^{Verse 11} in the hope of attaining the resurrection from the dead. ^{Verse 12} Not that I have already obtained it or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of me. ^{Verse 13} Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it yet. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, ^{Verse 14} I press on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. ^{Verse 15} Therefore all of us who are mature should adopt this mindset, and if you adopt a different mindset about anything, God will reveal that to you as well. ^{Verse 16} Nevertheless, let us live up to the same standard that we have already attained; let us adopt the same mindset. ^{Verse 17} Join together in imitating me, brothers, and pay close attention to those who walk according to the example you have in us. ^{Verse 18} For I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, that many walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. ^{Verse 19} Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things. ^{Verse 20} But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await from there a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ^{Verse 21} who will transform our lowly bodies to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him to subject all things to himself.