3. For we are the circumcision, who are serving Elohim in the Spirit, and boasting in Messiah יהושע, and do not trust in the flesh,
4. though I too might have trust in the flesh. If anyone else thinks to trust in the flesh, I more –
5. circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Yisra’ĕl, of the tribe of Binyamin, a Heḇrew of Heḇrews, according to Torah a Pharisee,
6. according to ardour, persecuting the assembly; according to righteousness that is in the law, having become blameless.
7. But what might have been a gain to me, I have counted as loss, because of Messiah.
8. What is more, I even count all to be loss because of the excellence of the knowledge of Messiah יהושע my Master, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them as refuse, in order to gain Messiah,
9. and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through belief in Messiah, the righteousness which is from Elohim on the basis of belief,
10. to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11. if somehow I might attain to the resurrection from the dead.