Bible Book - INDEX

MODERN LITERAL VERSION 2019 VERSION

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 boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

3:4 although I myself might have confidence in the flesh; if any other is thinking to have confidence in the flesh, I yet even more.

3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew out of 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 a forfeiture 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 but trash, in order that I may gain Christ,

3:9 and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, which is from the law, but which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon the faith,

3:10 that I may 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 that for which I was also grabbed by Christ Jesus.

3:13 Brethren, I do not reason to have grabbed it, but one thing I indeed do, forgetting 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 toward 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 things.


3:17 Brethren, become* joint imitators of me, and note* those who are 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 them; now I am also telling you *, weeping), who are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and whose glory is in their shame, who are mindful of earthly things.

3:20 For* our citizenship exists in the heavens; out of which we are also waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

3:21 He will fashion the body of our humbleness, *that* it may become transformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of which he is able to even subject all things to himself.