4. although I could have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else thinks to put confidence in the flesh, I can do so more:
5. circumcised on the eighth day, from the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born from Hebrews, according to the law a Pharisee,
6. according to zeal persecuting the church, according to the righteousness in the law being blameless.
7. But whatever things were gain to me, these things I have considered loss because of Christ.
8. More than that, I even consider all things to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them dung, in order that I may gain Christ