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Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Master. To write the same things to you is not burdensome to me, and for you it is a safeguard.
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Watch the dogs. Watch the evil workers. Watch the mutilation.
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For we are the circumcision— those serving by Ruach of Elohim, boasting in Yahushua the Anointed, and not placing confidence in flesh—
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though I myself have grounds for confidence even in flesh. If anyone else thinks he has confidence in flesh, I have more:
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circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Yisra’el, of the tribe of Binyamin, an Ivri from Ivrim, according to Torah, a Perushi;
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according to zeal, persecuting the assembly; according to righteousness that is within Torah-observance, found blameless.
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But whatever things were gain to me, these I have reckoned as loss because of the Anointed.
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Indeed, I reckon all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Yahushua the Anointed my Master, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and reckon them as refuse so that I may gain the Anointed
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and be found in him, not having my own righteousness as a status established from Torah-performance, but that which comes through the faithfulness of the Anointed— the righteousness from Elohim upon trust—
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so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and fellowship in his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
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if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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Not that I have already received it or have already been made complete, but I pursue, so that I may lay hold of that for which I also was laid hold of by Yahushua the Anointed.
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Brothers, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold of it. But one thing: forgetting the things behind and reaching forward toward the things ahead,
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I pursue toward the goal for the prize of the upward calling of Elohim in Yahushua the Anointed.
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Therefore, as many as are mature, let us think this way. And if in anything you think differently, Elohim shall reveal this also to you.
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Only, to what we have attained, let us walk in the same line.
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Become fellow imitators of me, brothers, and observe those walking in this manner, just as you have us as an example.
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For many walk— of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping— as enemies of the execution stake of the Anointed,
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whose end is destruction, whose elohim is the belly, whose glory is in their shame, those setting their minds upon earthly things.
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For our citizenship is in the heavens, from where we also eagerly await a Deliverer, the Master Yahushua the Anointed,
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who shall transform the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.