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          DASV: Philippians 3    

1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
things to you, is not a problem for me, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of those who
mutilate the flesh.
3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of
God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in
the flesh,
4 though I might have confidence even in the flesh. If any
one thinks he has reason to have confidence in the flesh, I
have more:
5 circumcised the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the
tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law,
a Pharisee.
6 Concerning zeal, I persecuted the church; concerning the
righteousness which is in the law, I was blameless.
7 Yet whatever I have gained I count loss for the sake of
Christ.
8 Even beyond that, I count all things as worthless for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for
whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count
them but garbage, so that I can gain Christ,
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my
own, that comes from the law, but one that is through
faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God
by faith.
10 My goal is to know him, and the power of his resurrection,
and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed
to his death.
11 That by any means possible I may attain to the resurrection
from the dead.

12 Not that I have already attained this, or have already
been made perfect, but I press on, to lay hold onto that
for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
13 Brothers, I do not consider myself to have achieved this,
but this one thing I do, forgetting the things which are
behind me, I reach for what is ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize that God
has called me to in Jesus Christ.
15 So let us have this mind; as many as are perfect. If
in anything you deviate, God will reveal it to you.
16 Just let us hold onto what we have already attained.
17 Brothers, join in imitating me, and watch carefully
those who live following this same example as you have
seen in us.
18 For as I told you before, and now tell you with tears,
that many people are really enemies of the cross of Christ.
19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly,
and they glory in their shame, and think only about earthly
things.
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, from where we wait
for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21 who will transform our weak bodies, that they may be
conformed to the likeness of his glorious body, according
to the working by which he is able to subject all things
to himself.

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