5circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!
6according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!
7But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;
8yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
9not having my righteousness, which [is] of law, but that which [is] through faith of Christ -- the righteousness that is of God by the faith,
10to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
11if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.
