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.
8Yes 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,