3:1 Finally, my achim, rejoice in Adonay.
To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3:3 For we are the circumcision, who are serving Elohim in the spirit, and rejoice in Mashiach Yehoshua (יהושע), and have no confidence in the flesh.
3:4 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:
3:5 Brit Milah (circumcised) the eighth day,
of the stock of Yisrael, of the tribe of BenYamin,
an Hebrew of the Hebrew-speaking parents;
as touching the Torah, a Perushim;
3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the Assembly;
touching the tzedakah which is in the Torah, blameless.
3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Mashiach.
3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Mashiach Yeshua (ישוע) my Master: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Mashiach,
3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own tzedakah, which is of the Torah, but that which is through the faith of Mashiach, the tzedakah which is of Elohim by faith:
3:10 That I may know him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death;
3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
3:12 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 Mashiach Yehoshua (יהושע).
3:13 Achim, 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,
3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of Elohim in Mashiach Yeshua (ישוע).
3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, Elohim shall reveal even this unto you.
3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
3:17 Achim, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the execution stake of Mashiach:
3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose Elohim is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Moshi'a, Adonay Yeshua (ישוע) Mashiach:
3:21 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.
