Finally, my brothers, rejoice in our Master. To write these things again and again to you is not wearisome to me, because they caution you.

Watch out for dogs; watch out for evil workers; watch out for the cutting of the flesh.

For we are the real circumcision, who serve Elohim in spirit, and boast in Y'shua the Mashiyach, and put no trust on the flesh.

Though I also had confidence on the flesh. For if anyone thinks his confidence is on the flesh, I more than he.

Circumcised on the eighth day; from the stock of Yisrael; from the tribe of Benyamin; a Hebrew, son of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

as to zeal, a persecutor of the assembly; and as to the righteousness of the law, I was without fault.

But these things that were a gain to me, I have counted as a loss because of the Mashiyach.

And I also count them all a loss because of the greatness of the knowledge of Y'shua the Mashiyach my Master, for whose sake I have lost everything and have counted them as dung, that I may gain the Mashiyach,

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that is from the law, but that which is from the faith of the Mashiyach, which is the righteousness from Elohim;

that I may know Y'shua and the power of his resurrection, and share in his sufferings, and be conformed to his death,

if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already taken the prize, or am already complete; but I run, that I may take hold of that for which Y'shua the Mashiyach took hold of me.

My brothers, I do not reckon myself as having attained it. But one thing I know, that I forget the things behind me, and I stretch forward to the things before me;

and I run toward the goal, that I may obtain the prize of victory of the calling of Elohim from above in Y'shua the Mashiyach.

Therefore let those who are perfect think these things; and if you think anything differently, Elohim will also reveal this to you.

Nevertheless, to what we have reached, let us walk in one path and with one consent.

Be like me, my brothers; and keep watching those who walk in this way, as you have the pattern you saw in us.

For there are many who walk otherwise; of whom I have often told you, and now I tell you with weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of the Mashiyach;

whose end is destruction; those whose Elohim is their belly, and their glory is their shame; these whose thoughts are on the earth.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from there we look for the Life-Giver, our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach,

who will change the body of our lowliness so that it may be in the likeness of the body of his glory, according to his great power by which he subjects all things to himself.