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1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
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For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
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Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other
man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
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Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe
of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
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Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the
righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
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But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
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Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency
of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of
all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
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And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is
of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness
which is of God by faith:
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That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
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If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the
dead.
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Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am
apprehended of Christ Jesus.
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Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto
those things which are before,
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I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.
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Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if
in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
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Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by
the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
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Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk
so as ye have us for an ensample.
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(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:
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Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose
glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for
the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to
subdue all things unto himself.
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