1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To
write the same things to you is not note irksome to me,
and for you it is safe.
2 Beware of those that are
like dogs, beware of evil note doers, beware of the note concision.
3 For we are of the true circumcision, who
worship God in spirit, note rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and
having no confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I might
also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks
he hath whereof to trust in the flesh, I more:
5 having
been circumcised on the eighth day, of the race of Israel,
of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of Hebrews, with
respect to the law a pharisee,
6 as to zeal persecuting the
church, as to the righteousness note of the law blameless:
but those things,
7 which were once gain to me, I counted
loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless and I count all note but
loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and
I account them note but dung, that I may gain Christ,
and be found in Him,
9 not having my own righteousness
which is of the law, but that which is by the faith
of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
that I may know Him,
10 and the power of his resurrection,
and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made
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conformable to his death;
11 if by any means I may
attain to the resurrection of the dead:
12 not that I have
note yet won the prize, or am already perfect: but I press
forward to note acquire that perfection, for which also I
have been note apprehended by Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I
count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do,
forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching
forward to those before,
14 I press toward the mark for the
prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, attend to
this: and if in any thing ye think differently, God will
reveal this also unto you.
16 But in what we have attained,
let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be imitators of me, and observe those that
walk note as ye have us for an example.
18 (For many walk,
of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even
weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
whose end is destruction,
19 whose God is their belly, and
note whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly
things) For our note conversation is in heaven,
20 from whence
also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ:
who will change our vile body,
21 that it may be made note
like note his glorious body, according to the energy of his
ability note to subdue all things to Himself.
Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
