Philippians 3 — TNTC

3Verse 1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in Sovereign. For me to write the same things to you is not troublesome and for you it is the safe thing.^{Verse 2}Watch out for the ‘dogs’, watch out for the bad workers, watch out for the mutilation!^{+Verse 3}For it is we who are the circumcision, the ones who worship by God's Spirit and glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in flesh^{Verse 4}(though I myself actually have basis for such confidence). About Paul If anyone else thinks he has basis for confidence in flesh, I even more:^{Verse 5}circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; with respect to the Law, a Pharisee;^{Verse 6}with respect to zeal, persecuting the Church; with respect to the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.^{+Verse 7}But such things as were gain to me, these I have considered loss for the sake of the Christ.^{Verse 8}Yes indeed, in fact I actually consider everything to be a loss for the sake of the excelling thing, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord⁺—for His sake I have already lost everything⁺(and consider it as trash), so that I may gain Christ^{Verse 9}and be found in Him, not having as my righteousness that of the Law but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness of God based on that faith;^{Verse 10}so that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the sharing in His sufferings,⁺becoming like Him in His death,^{+Verse 11}and so, somehow,⁺that I may arrive into the resurrection from among the dead^{Verse 12}—not that I have already obtained it or have already been perfected; but I press on to actually claim that for which Christ Jesus claimed me.^{Verse 13}Brothers, I do not consider that I have already claimed it, but this: forgetting the things behind and straining toward those ahead,^{+Verse 14}I press on toward the goal for the prize, the upward call from God⁺because of Christ Jesus.

Our citizenship is in Heaven

^{Verse 15}So then, those of us who are mature should have this mentality, but if on some point you think differently, God will reveal that to you as well.^{+Verse 16}Only, in what we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.^{+Verse 17}Brothers, join together in imitating me, and having us⁺as a pattern take note of those who walk in the same way.^{+Verse 18}Because many are walking as enemies of the cross of Christ—of whom I told you often, and now tell you even with tears—^{Verse 19}whose end is ruin, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame; their mind is only on earthly things.^{+Verse 20}But our citizenship is in Heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly await our Deliverer,⁺Sovereign Jesus Christ;^{Verse 21}who will transform the body of our humiliation⁺so that it will be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working by which He is indeed able to subject all things to Himself.