Chapter 3
Philippians
3:1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in YASHUWAH. To write the same things to you*, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you* it is safe.
3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil-workers, beware of the mutilation.
3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship Elohim in the spirit, and rejoice in the Messiah YASHUWAH, and have no confidence in the flesh.
3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reason to trust 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 the Hebrews; with respect to the law, a Pharisee;
3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; with respect to the righteousness which is by the law, found blameless.
3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted as loss for the Messiah.
3:8 Yes doubtless, and I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of the Messiah YASHUWAH my Master: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them to be dung, so that I may win the Messiah,
3:9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through the faith of the Messiah, the righteousness which is from Elohim by faith:
3:10 So that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death;
3:11 If by any means I may attain to the resurrection of the dead.
3:12 Not as though I had already attained, or am already perfect: but I pursue, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended by the Messiah YASHUWAH.
3:13 Brothers, I do not count myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are before,
3:14 I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of Elohim in the Messiah YASHUWAH.
3:15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything you* are otherwise minded, Elohim will reveal even this to you*.
3:16 Nevertheless, to what we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
3:17 Brothers, be followers together of me, and mark those who walk so as you* have us for an example.
3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you* often, and now tell you* even weeping, that they are the enemies of the torture stake of the Messiah:
3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose Elohim is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
3:20 For our citizenship is in Heaven; from where we also look for the Saviour, the Master YASHUWAH the Messiah:
3:21 Who will change our vile body, so that it may be fashioned like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.