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It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>though I myself could have such confidence. <p class="reg"> If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> the righteousness from God on the basis of faith. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Pressing on toward the Goal<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Brothers, 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, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained. <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Citizenship in Heaven<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, <span class="reftext"><a href="/philippians/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>through the faithfulness of Christ</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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