^3:1 Furthermore, my brethren, rejoice^° in the Lord. Indeed, it is not tedious for me to write the same things to you^°, but a secure thing for you^°. ^3:2 Beware^° of the dogs; beware^° of the evil workers; beware^° of the mutilation. ^3:3 For^* we are the circumcision, who are giving-divine-service in the Spirit of God, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh; ^3:4 although I also have confidence in the flesh; if any other is thinking to have confidence in the flesh, I have more. ^3:5 An eighth day circumcision from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew from Hebrews; according-to the law, a Pharisee; ^3:6 according-to zeal, I was persecuting the congregation^* of believers; according-to the righteousness in the law, I became blameless. ^3:7 But what things were gains for me, I have deemed these a forfeiture because of the Christ. ^3:8 But therefore, I am also deeming all things indeed to be garbage because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom, I forfeited all things, and am deeming them to be trash in-order-that I may gain Christ, ^3:9 and may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which is from the law, but which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon the faith, ^3:10 to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being transformed to his death; ^3:11 if somehow I may achieve to the resurrection out-of the dead. ^3:12 Not that I have already received it or have already been completed in this, but I am pursuing it, if I might grab upon what I was also grabbed by Christ Jesus. ^3:13 Brethren, I myself do not reason to have grabbed it, but indeed forgetting one thing, that is the things which are behind me and stretching forth to the things which are before me. ^3:14 I am pursuing, according-to the goal line, at the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus. ^3:15 Therefore, as many as are mature, we should be mindful of this, and if you^° are mindful of anyone differently, God will also be revealing this to you^°; ^3:16 however in what we have attained, we are to march by the same standard^*, to be mindful of the same thing.

      ^3:17 Brethren, become^° fellow imitators of me, and note^° the ones walking so, just-as you^° have us as an example. ^3:18 For^* many are walking (of whom I was speaking to you^° often about; now I am also saying it again, weeping), who are the enemies of the cross of Christ, ^3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who are mindful of earthly things. ^3:20 For^* our citizenship exists in the heavens; from where we are also waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ^3:21 who will shape the body of our humbleness, ^*that^* it may become transformed to the body of his glory, according-to the working of him to be able to even subject all things to himself.