3. for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:
4. though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
5. circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6. as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
7. Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
8. Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may gain Christ,
9. and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10. that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
11. if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
12. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus.
13. Brethren, I count not myself yet to have apprehended: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
14. I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, even this shall God reveal unto you:
16. only, whereunto we have already attained, by that same rule let us walk.