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\v 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write these same things again to you is not a problem, and they will keep you safe.
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\v 2 Watch out for the dogs. Watch out for the evil workers. Watch out for the mutilators.
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\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.
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\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.
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\v 7 But whatever things seemed to count to my credit, I have counted them as worthless because of Christ.
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\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.
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\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.
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\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,
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\v 11 so somehow I may experience the resurrection from the dead.
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\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.
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\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.
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\v 14 I continue pressing on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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\v 15 Let us therefore, as many as are mature, think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will also reveal that to you.
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\v 16 However, whatever standard we have reached, let us walk in an orderly fashion according to it.
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\v 17 Brothers, join me and imitate me, and watch closely those who are walking by our example.
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\v 18 I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, that many are living as enemies of the cross of Christ.
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\v 19 Their destiny is destruction because their god is their belly and their glory is in their shame. They are thinking about earthly things.
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\v 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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\v 21 He will transform our lowly bodies into bodies formed like his glorious body, formed by his power to control all things.
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