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Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.

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Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:

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for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

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though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

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circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews as touching the law, a Pharisee

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as touching zeal, persecuting the church as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

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Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

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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 refuse, that I may gain Christ,

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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 from God by faith:

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that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death

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if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.