1 ¶ It remains, my brethren, that ye rejoice in the Lord. It does not bother me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.

2 B eware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:

3 F or we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit and glory in Christ Jesus, having no confidence in the flesh.

for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

4 ¶ Though I might also have reason to confide in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

5 C ircumcised the eighth day, of the lineage of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

6 c oncerning zeal, a persecutor of the congregation; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

7 B ut those things which were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ.

Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

8 A nd doubtless I even count all things as loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

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

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

10 T hat I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;

11 i f by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

12 N ot as though I had already attained it, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if I may lay hold of that for which I have also been laid hold of by the Christ, Jesus.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

13 B rethren, I do not reckon to have laid hold of it yet, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and extending myself unto those things which are ahead,

Brethren, I count not 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,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15 ¶ Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:

16 N evertheless, in that unto which we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us have the same mind.

only, whereunto we have attained, by that same rule let us walk.

17 ¶ Brethren, be imitators of me and consider those who so walk, as ye have us for a pattern.

Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.

18 ( For many walk, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ;

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

19 w hose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

20 F or our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

21 W ho shall transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is also able to subdue all things unto himself.

who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.