KJ3 Literal Translation
Philippians 3
1 He warns them to beware of false teachers. 18 He persuades them to reject the ways of carnal Christians.
1For the rest, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you truly is not troublesome to me, but safe for you.
2Watch for the dogs, watch for the evil workers, watch for the cutting off party.
3For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, and who glory in Christ Jesus, and who do not trust in flesh.
4Even though I might have trust in flesh; if any other thinks to trust in flesh, I more;
5in circumcision, the eighth day, of the race of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; according to Law, a Pharisee;
6according to zeal, persecuting the Assembly; according to righteousness in Law, being blameless.
7But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of Christ.
8But, nay, rather I also count all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them to be trash, that I might gain Christ
9and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness of Law, but through the faith of Christ, having the righteousness of God on faith,
10to know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11if somehow I may arrive to the resurrection out of the dead.
12Not that I already received or already have been perfected, but I pursue, if I also may lay hold, inasmuch as I also was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
13Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching out for the things before,
14I am pursuing a goal for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15Therefore as many as are perfect, think this; and if you think any other thing, God will also reveal this to you.
16Yet as to where we have arrived, walk by the same rule, being of the same mind.
17Be fellow-imitators of me, brothers, and consider the ones walking this way, even as you have us for a pattern.
18For many walk as hostile to the cross of Christ, of whom I often told you, and now even weeping I say it,
19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and who glory in their shame, the ones thinking earthly things.
20For our citizenship is in Heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21who will transform the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformed to His body of glory, according to the working of Him to be able even to subject all things to Himself.
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