1For 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.
2Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:
3For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
4Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:
5Being 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:
6In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
7But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.