New Revised Standard NRS
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a safeguard.
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For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.
2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
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Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:
3 For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh—
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For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
4 even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more:
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Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:
5 circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
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Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:
6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
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In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.
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But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
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Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.
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And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,
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That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;
11 if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
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If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
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Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.
13 Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
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Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,
14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.
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I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you.
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Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:
16 Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.
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Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.
17 Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us.
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Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.
18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.
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For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;
19 Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.
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Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.
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By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.
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