3:1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

3:2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

3:4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

3:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

3:6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

3:7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

3:8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus the Messiah, my teacher, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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

3:10 that I may know him and the power of God who raised him, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his steadfastness,

3:11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

3:12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

3:13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,

3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

3:15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

3:16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.

3:17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

3:18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the Messiah’s message,

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

3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for the return of Jesus the Messiah,

3:21 and God will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to a body of glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.