3: 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the 35concision:
35a contemptuous word for circumcision (= mutilation) See footnote in Marshall’s diaglott.
3: 3 for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:
3: 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man 36thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
36Or, seemeth
3: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of 37Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
37Or, of Hebrew parents; See Marshall’s diaglott.
3: 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which cometh about in the law, found blameless.
3: 7 Howbeit what things were 38gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
38Gk. gains
3: 8 Yes truly, 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,
3: 9 and be found in him, 39not 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 40by faith:
39Or, not having as my righteousness that which is of the law,
40Gk. upon
3: 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the 41fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
41Or, communion or, joint participation
3: 11 if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
3: 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I 42press on, if so be that I may 43lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.
42Lit. pursue, And in vs. 14 (similarly in vs. 6, pursuing for persecuting).
43Or, lay hold, seeing that also I was laid hold on
3: 13 Brethren, I count not myself 44 to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
44So p46B 1739 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., copsa arm vg. But p16vid,61vidÀA 33 81 copbo add yet
3: 14 I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the 45high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
45Or, upward
3: 15 Let us therefore, as many as are 46perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:
46Or, full-grown 1Co 2:6.
3: 16 only, whereunto we have attained, by that same rule let us walk.
3: 17 Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
3: 18 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:
3: 19 whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, whose glory is in their shame, who mind the earthly things.
3: 20 For our 47place of citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
47Or, commonwealth is
3: 21 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.
