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| 3 | Philippians |
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Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and is safe for you. | The True Righteousness Php.3.1-11 |
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Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil-workers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. | |
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For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh. | |
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Though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If any other man thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: | |
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circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law a Pharisee, | |
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as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law blameless. | |
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But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. | |
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Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ | |
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and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith; | |
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that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, | |
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that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. | |
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Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ has made me his own. | Pressing toward the Mark Php.3.12-4.1 |
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Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, | |
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I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. | |
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Let those of us who are mature be thus minded; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you. | |
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Only let us hold true to what we have attained. | |
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Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us. | |
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For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. | |
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Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. | |
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But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, | |
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who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself. | |
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