31For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in [the] Lord: to write the same things to you, to me [is] not irksome, and for you safe.+2See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.+3For we are the circumcision, who worship by [the] Spirit ofGod, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.+4Though I have [my] trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, I rather:+5as to circumcision, [I received it] the eighth day; of [the] race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee;+6as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which [is] in [the] law, found blameless;+7but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.+8But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;+9and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which [would be] on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which [is] ofGod through faith,+10to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,+11if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among [the] dead.+
Pressing on toward the Goal
12Not that I have already obtained [the prize], or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession [of it], seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].+13Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing — forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,+14I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high ofGod in Christ Jesus.+15As many therefore as [are] perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this alsoGod shall reveal to you.+16But whereto we have attained, [let us] walk in the same steps.+
Citizenship in Heaven
17Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;+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:+19whose end [is] destruction, whosegod [is] the belly, and [their] glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)+20for our commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,+21who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of [the] power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.+
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