Philippians 3 verses 1 through 14.

Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord.

It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

Watch out for those dogs, those evil-doers, those mutilators of the flesh, for it is we who are the circumcision,

we who serve God by His Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus,

and who put no confidence in the flesh, though I myself have reasons for such confidence.

If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more,

circumcised on the eighth day, the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews,

in regard to the law of Pharisee, as for zeal, persecuting the church, as for righteousness

based on the law, faultless. But whatever were gains to me, I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the

surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them

garbage that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that

comes from the law, but that which

is through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

I want to know Christ, yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in

his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so somehow attaining

to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already

arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it, but one thing I do,

forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal

to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

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