1 All for Christ Finally, my brethren, 1 Thess. 5:16 rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not tedious, but for you it is safe.
2 Ps. 22:16, 20; Gal. 5:15; Rev. 22:15 Beware of dogs, beware of Ps. 119:115 evil workers, Rom. 2:28 beware of the mutilation!
3 For we are Deut. 30:6; Rom. 2:28, 29; 9:6; (Gal. 6:15) the circumcision, John 4:24; Rom. 7:6 who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh,
4 though 2 Cor. 5:16; 11:18 I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I 2 Cor. 11:22, 23 more so:
5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, Rom. 11:1 of the tribe of Benjamin, 2 Cor. 11:22 a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, Acts 23:6 a Pharisee;
6 concerning zeal, Acts 8:3; 22:4, 5; 26:9–11 persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
7 But Matt. 13:44 what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.
8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss Is. 53:11; Jer. 9:23; John 17:3;1 Cor. 2:2; (Eph. 4:13) for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in Him, not having Rom. 10:3 my own righteousness, which is from the law, but Rom. 1:17 that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
10 that I may know Him and the Eph. 1:19, 20 power of His resurrection, and (Rom. 6:3–5); 2 Cor. 1:5;1 Pet. 4:13 the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11 if, by any means, I may Acts 26:6–8; (1 Cor. 15:23; Rev. 20:5) attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Pressing Toward the Goal Not that I have already 1 Cor. 9:24; (1 Tim. 6:12, 19) attained, or am already Heb. 12:23 perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, Luke 9:62 forgetting those things which are behind and Heb. 6:1 reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
14 2 Tim. 4:7 I press toward the goal for the prize of Heb. 3:1 the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore let us, as many as are Matt. 5:48;1 Cor. 2:6 mature, Gal. 5:10 have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, Hos. 6:3; James 1:5 God will reveal even this to you.
16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, Gal. 6:16 let us walk Rom. 12:16; 15:5 by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.
17 Our Citizenship in Heaven Brethren, (1 Cor. 4:16; 11:1); Phil. 4:9 join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as Titus 2:7, 8;1 Pet. 5:3 you have us for a pattern.
18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are Gal. 1:7 the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 2 Cor. 11:15 whose end is destruction, 1 Tim. 6:5 whose god is their belly, and Hos. 4:7 whose glory is in their shame— Rom. 8:5; Col. 3:2 who set their mind on earthly things.
20 For Eph. 2:6, 19; Phil. 1:27; (Col. 3:1; Heb. 12:22) our citizenship is in heaven, Acts 1:11 from which we also 1 Cor. 1:7 eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21 (1 Cor. 15:43–53) who will transform our lowly body that it may be 1 John 3:2 conformed to His glorious body, Eph. 1:19 according to the working by which He is able even to (1 Cor. 15:28) subdue all things to Himself.