Chapter 3
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| 3:1 Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice inside of the Lord. To write the same words that I already spoke to you is not troublesome to me, but makes them certain for you. 2 Beware of the scavenging dogs; beware of the evil workers, beware of the mutilation. [k] • 3 We indeed are the [True] circumcision, those in God’s Spirit, worshipping and glorying inside of Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh. [l] 4 Though I might have confidence even in the flesh. [m] If any other thinks to trust in flesh, I am more able to do so. 5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, born out of the nation of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, I was a Pharisee; 6 according to zeal, persecuting the church; according to the rightness which is inside the law, I became without fault. [n] • 7 But whatever things were of benefit to me, through Christ I have considered them to be a bad deal. 8 BUT, yes rather, therefore, indeed, [o] I also consider all to be a bad deal, a losing exchange, through the surpassing knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, through whom I have forfeited all that I once thought important, and I consider my own fake rightness to be dog crap, • that I might gain Christ by exchange. [p] • 9 And that I might be found inside of Him, not possessing my own self-rightness out of the law, [q) but that just innocence which comes through the faith of Christ, the just innocence out from God coming upon faith. • 10 That I might know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, having already been symmorphosed, sharing the same form with His death. • 11 For by this manner, I would arrive at my destination into the resurrection out from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained that resurrection or have already come to completion; but I am aggressively pursuing it, that I also might seize hold upon that which I also was seized hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not reckon myself to have seized hold of the resurrection (yet). • One thing, however, ignoring the things truly behind and stretching towards the things before, 14 I aggressively pursue all the details of the target all the way into the reward of the filled-to-the-brim calling of God inside of Christ Jesus. 15 As many as are also completely perfected, therefore, should share this same gut-level heart thinking. But if in anything you are differently minded, even this God will unveil to you. 16 Nevertheless, to wherever we have arrived, walk by the same rule, the same heart thinking. 17 Be imitators together with me, brothers and sisters, and consider those who are walking in this way, as you have us for a pattern. 18 Many indeed are walking, of whom I often told you, and now I tell you even weeping, that they walk as hostile against the cross of Christ, 19 whose completion is loss, whose god is their belly, whose glory is their shame, those thinking by earthly sight or judgment. • 20 Our belonging, our inclusion in God’s kingdom, exists right now active in the heavens, that is, in the realms of spirit, out from which we continuously and eagerly welcome our Savior [and Life], the Lord Jesus Christ, • 21 who will transform the outer appearance of our lowly individual physical bodies, as we are symmorphosed with [sharing the same form with] His entire glorious Body [the Church], down to the finest details of the Energeia, the mighty continuous and swirling action of His ability to cause ALL [by symmorphy] to be subject to Himself. |
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