\v 2 Watch out for the dogs. Watch out for the evil workers. Watch out for the mutilators.
\v 3 For we are the true circumcision, we who worship in the Spirit of God, glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
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\v 4 Even so, I myself could have confidence in the flesh. If anyone thinks he has confidence in the flesh, I could have even more.
\v 5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, born of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in respect to the law, a Pharisee.
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\v 6 I zealously persecuted the church and was blameless in respect to the righteousness of the law.
\v 7 But whatever things seemed to count to my credit, I have counted them as worthless because of Christ.
\v 8 In fact, now I count all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For him I have discarded all things. I consider them garbage so that I may gain Christ.
\v 9 And now I am found in him. I do not have a righteousness of my own from the law. Instead, I have the righteousness from God that is through faith in Christ.
\v 10 So now I want to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings—and I am transformed by Christ into the likeness of his death,
\v 12 I have not yet received these things, so I am not yet complete. But I continue pressing on in order that I may grasp that for which I was grasped by Christ Jesus.
\v 13 Brothers, I do not think that I myself have yet grasped it. But one thing I do is this: I forget what is behind and strive for what is ahead.