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For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.

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Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:

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For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

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Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

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Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

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In bitter hate I was cruel to the church I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

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But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

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Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

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And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

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That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death

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If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.