1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe. 2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision: 3for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Messiah Yeshua, and have no confidence in the flesh: 4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Torah, a Pharisee; 6as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to the righteousness which is in the Torah, found blameless. 7However, whatever things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Messiah. 8Yes truly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Messiah Yeshua my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Messiah, 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, even that which is of the Torah, but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from God by faith: 10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death; 11if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if indeed I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Messiah Yeshua. 13Brothers, I do not count myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua. 15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything you are otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you: 16only, to what we have attained, by that same rule let us walk. 17Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who so walk even as you have us for an example. 18For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Messiah: 19whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. 20For our citizenship is in heaven; from where also we wait for a Savior, the Lord Yeshua Messiah: 21who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.