¹ Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

² Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

³ For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Messiah Yeshua, and have no confidence in the flesh;

⁴ though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

⁶ concerning zeal, persecuting the congregation; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

⁷ However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Messiah.

⁸ More than that, I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Messiah Yeshua, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Messiah

⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

¹⁰ that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

¹¹ if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Messiah Yeshua.

¹³ Brothers, I do not regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to the things which are ahead,

¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.

¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

¹⁶ Nevertheless, to what we have attained, to the same continue on¹.

1. M TR add "with the same standard, thinking the same"

¹⁷ Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

¹⁸ For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Messiah,

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

²⁰ For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah;

²¹ who will change our lowly bodies into the likeness of his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.