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Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
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Because for
the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service
toward me.
CHAPTER 3
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.
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Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
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For we are the circumcision,
which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
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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:
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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;
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Concerning zeal,
persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
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But what things
were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
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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,
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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:
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That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
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If by any means I might
attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
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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.
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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,
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I press toward
the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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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.
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Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us
mind the same thing.
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Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye
have us for an ensample.
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(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:
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Whose end
is
destruction, whose God
is their
belly, and
whose
glory
is
in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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For our conversation
is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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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.
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