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,
9And 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:
