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1 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. 2 Be­ware of dogs, be­ware of evil work­ers, be­ware of the con­ci­sion. 3 For we are the cir­cum­ci­sion, which wor­ship God in the spir­it, and re­joice in Christ Je­sus, and have no con­fi­dence in the flesh. 4 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: 5 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; 6 Con­cern­ing zeal, per­se­cut­ing the church; touch­ing the righ­teous­ness which is in the law, blame­less. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I count­ed loss for Christ. 8 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, 9 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: 10 That I may know him, and the pow­er of his res­ur­rec­tion, and the fel­low­ship of his suf­fer­ings, be­ing made con­formable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might at­tain unto the res­ur­rec­tion of the dead. 12 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. 13 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, 14 I press to­ward the mark for the prize of the high call­ing of God in Christ Je­sus. 15 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. 16 Nev­er­the­less, where­to we have al­ready at­tained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 17 Brethren, be fol­low­ers to­geth­er of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an en­sam­ple. 18 (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: 19 Whose end is de­struc­tion, whose God is their bel­ly, and whose glo­ry is in their shame, who mind earth­ly things.) 20 For our con­ver­sa­tion is in heav­en; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Je­sus Christ: 21 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.