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Sitten vielä, veljeni, iloitkaa Herrassa! Samoista asioista teille kirjoittaminen ei minua kyllästytä, ja teille se on turvaksi.

Kavahtakaa noita koiria, kavahtakaa noita pahoja työntekijöitä, kavahtakaa noita pilalleleikattuja.

Sillä oikeita ympärileikattuja olemme me, jotka Jumalan Hengessä palvelemme Jumalaa ja kerskaamme Kristuksessa Jeesuksessa, emmekä luota lihaan,

vaikka minulla on, mihin luottaa lihassakin. Jos kuka muu luulee voivansa luottaa lihaan, niin voin vielä enemmän minä,

joka olen ympärileikattu kahdeksanpäiväisenä ja olen Israelin kansaa, Benjaminin sukukuntaa, hebrealainen hebrealaisista syntynyt, ollut lakiin nähden fariseus,

intoon nähden seurakunnan vainooja, lain vanhurskauteen nähden nuhteeton.

Mutta mikä minulle oli voitto, sen minä olen Kristuksen tähden lukenut tappioksi.

Niinpä minä todella luen kaikki tappioksi tuon ylen kalliin, Kristuksen Jeesuksen, minun Herrani, tuntemisen rinnalla, sillä hänen tähtensä minä olen menettänyt kaikki ja pidän sen roskana - että voittaisin omakseni Kristuksen

ja minun havaittaisiin olevan hänessä ja omistavan, ei omaa vanhurskautta, sitä, joka laista tulee, vaan sen, joka tulee Kristuksen uskon kautta, sen vanhurskauden, joka tulee Jumalasta uskon perusteella;

10 tunteakseni hänet ja hänen ylösnousemisensa voiman ja hänen kärsimyksiensä osallisuuden, tullessani hänen kaltaisekseen samankaltaisen kuoleman kautta,

11 jos minä ehkä pääsen ylösnousemiseen kuolleista.

12 Ei niin, että jo olisin sen saavuttanut tai että jo olisin tullut täydelliseksi, vaan minä riennän sitä kohti, että minä sen omakseni voittaisin, koskapa Kristus Jeesus on voittanut minut.

13 Veljet, minä en vielä katso sitä voittaneeni; mutta yhden minä teen: unhottaen sen, mikä on takana, ja kurottautuen sitä kohti, mikä on edessäpäin,

14 minä riennän kohti päämäärää, voittopalkintoa, johon Jumala on minut taivaallisella kutsumisella kutsunut Kristuksessa Jeesuksessa.

15 Olkoon siis meillä, niin monta kuin meitä on täydellistä, tämä mieli; ja jos teillä jossakin kohden on toinen mieli, niin Jumala on siinäkin teille ilmoittava, kuinka asia on.

16 Kunhan vain, mihin saakka olemme ehtineetkin, vaellamme samaa tietä!

17 Olkaa minun seuraajiani, veljet, ja katselkaa niitä, jotka näin vaeltavat, niinkuin me olemme teille esikuvana.

18 Sillä monet, joista usein olen sen teille sanonut ja nyt aivan itkien sanon, vaeltavat Kristuksen ristin vihollisina;

19 heidän loppunsa on kadotus, vatsa on heidän jumalansa, heidän kunnianaan on heidän häpeänsä, ja maallisiin on heidän mielensä.

20 Mutta meillä on yhdyskuntamme taivaissa, ja sieltä me myös odotamme Herraa Jeesusta Kristusta Vapahtajaksi,

21 joka on muuttava meidän alennustilamme ruumiin kirkkautensa ruumiin kaltaiseksi sillä voimallaan, jolla hän myös voi tehdä kaikki itsellensä alamaiseksi.

No Confidence in the Flesh

Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again,(A) and it is a safeguard for you. Watch out for those dogs,(B) those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision,(C) we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus,(D) and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reasons for such confidence.(E)

If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised(F) on the eighth day, of the people of Israel,(G) of the tribe of Benjamin,(H) a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;(I) as for zeal,(J) persecuting the church;(K) as for righteousness based on the law,(L) faultless.

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss(M) for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing(N) Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ(O) and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,(P) but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness(Q) that comes from God on the basis of faith.(R) 10 I want to know(S) Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings,(T) becoming like him in his death,(U) 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection(V) from the dead.

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal,(W) but I press on to take hold(X) of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.(Y) 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind(Z) and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on(AA) toward the goal to win the prize(AB) for which God has called(AC) me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Following Paul’s Example

15 All of us, then, who are mature(AD) should take such a view of things.(AE) And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.(AF) 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

17 Join together in following my example,(AG) brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.(AH) 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears,(AI) many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.(AJ) 19 Their destiny(AK) is destruction, their god is their stomach,(AL) and their glory is in their shame.(AM) Their mind is set on earthly things.(AN) 20 But our citizenship(AO) is in heaven.(AP) And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,(AQ) 21 who, by the power(AR) that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies(AS) so that they will be like his glorious body.(AT)

Footnotes

  1. Philippians 3:9 Or through the faithfulness of

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

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

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

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

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

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but 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,

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

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

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

12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

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

15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so 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:

19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.