1Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
2Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 4Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 17Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Ban da dogara a jiki
1A ƙarshe, ’yan’uwana, ku yi farin ciki a cikin Ubangiji! Ba abin damuwa ba ne a gare ni in sāke rubuta muku irin waɗannan abubuwa, domin lafiyarku ne. 2Ku yi hankali da waɗancan karnuka, waɗancan mutane masu aikata mugunta, waɗancan masu yankan jiki. 3Gama mu ne masu kaciya, mu da muke yi sujada ta wurin Ruhun Allah, mu da muke taƙama a cikin Kiristi Yesu, mu da ba mu dogara da ayyukan da ake gani ba, 4ko da yake ni kaina ina da dalilan dogara da haka.
In kuwa akwai wani wanda yake tsammani yana da dalilan dogara ga jiki, ni fa na fi shi, 5an yi mini kaciya a rana ta takwas, asalina Isra’ila ne, na kabilar Benyamin, mutumin Ibraniyawa ɗan Ibraniyawa; bisa ga doka kuwa ni Bafarisiye ne; 6wajen himma kuwa, ni mai tsananta wa ikkilisiya ne, wajen aikin adalci bisa ga hanyar doka, ni marar laifi ne.
7Amma abin da dā ya zama mini riba yanzu, na ɗauka hasara ce saboda Kiristi. 8Me kuma ya fi, na ɗauki dukan abubuwa hasara ne in aka kwatanta da mafificiyar girman sanin Kiristi Yesu Ubangijina, wanda saboda shi ne na yi hasarar kome. Na mai da su kayan wofi, domin in sami Kiristi 9a kuma same ni a cikinsa, ba da wani adalcin kaina wanda yake zuwa daga bin doka ba, sai dai adalcin da yake samuwa ta wurin bangaskiya a cikin Kiristi, adalcin da yake fitowa daga Allah da kuma yake zuwa ta wurin bangaskiya. 10Ina so in san Kiristi da ikon tashinsa daga matattu da kuma zumuncin tarayya cikin shan wahalarsa, in kuma zama kamar sa a cikin mutuwarsa, 11yadda kuma ko ta yaya, in kai ga tashin nan daga matattu.
12Ba cewa na riga na sami dukan wannan ba ne, ko kuma an riga an mai da ni cikakke ba, sai dai ina nacewa don in kai ga samun abin da Kiristi Yesu ya riƙe ni saboda shi. 13’Yan’uwa, ban ɗauki kaina a kan cewa na riga na sami abin ba. Sai dai abu guda nake yi. Ina mantawa da abin da yake baya, ina kuma nacewa zuwa ga samun abin da yake gaba, 14ina nacewa gaba zuwa ga manufar, don in sami ladar da Allah ya yi mini na kiran nan zuwa sama a cikin Kiristi Yesu.
Nacewa zuwa ga manufar
15Dukanmu da muka balaga ya kamata mu yi wannan irin ganin abubuwa. In kuwa saboda wani dalili tunaninku ya yi dabam, Allah zai bayyana muku wannan ma. 16Sai dai a duk inda muka kai, mu ci gaba da haka.
17Ku haɗa kai da waɗansu cikin bin gurbina, ku kuma lura da waɗanda suke rayuwa bisa ga ƙa’idar da muka ba ku. 18Gama kamar yadda na sha gaya muku yanzu kuma ina sāke gaya muku har ma da hawaye, waɗansu da yawa suna rayuwa kamar abokan gāban gicciyen Kiristi. 19Ƙaddararsu hallaka ce, allahnsu cikinsu ne, rashin kunyarsu shi ne abin fahariyarsu. Hankalinsu yana kan kayan duniya. 20Amma mu ’yan mulkin sama ne. Muna kuma jira zuwan Mai Ceto daga can, Ubangiji Yesu Kiristi, 21shi ne mai ikon kawo dukan abubuwa ƙarƙashin mulkinsa. Ta wurin ikon nan nasa zai sāke jikin nan namu na ƙasƙanci, yă mai da shi kamar jikin nan nasa na ɗaukaka.
