¹Sicer pa, bratje moji, veselite se v Gospodu! Eno in isto vam pisati ni sitno meni, vam pa je v potrjenje.

¹Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

²Pazite se psov, pazite se slabih delavcev, pazite se razreze!

²Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

³Kajti mi smo obreza, ki v Božjem Duhu služimo Bogu in se hvalimo v Kristusu Jezusu in ne stavimo upanja v meso,

³For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

⁴dasi imam jaz lahko tudi v meso zaupanje. Če meni kdo drugi zaupati v meso, jaz tem bolj:

⁴though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

⁵obrezan osmi dan, iz rodu Izraelovega, rodovine Benjaminove, Hebrejec iz Hebrejcev, po postavi farizej,

⁵circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

⁶po gorečnosti preganjalec cerkve, po pravičnosti, ki sloni na postavi, brez pogreška.

⁶concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

⁷Ali kar mi je bilo dobiček, to sem imel zaradi Kristusa za izgubo.

⁷However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

⁸Ali zares, tudi zdaj imam vse za izgubo, ker je mnogo boljše spoznanje Kristusa Jezusa, Gospoda mojega, zaradi katerega sem vse izgubil in imam to za smeti, da pridobim Kristusa

⁸Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

⁹in se najdem v njem, ne imajoč svoje pravičnosti, ki izvira iz postave, ampak tiste, ki je po veri v Kristusa, iz Boga pravičnosti, na podlagi vere,

⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

¹⁰da spoznam njega in moč vstajenja njegovega in sodeleštvo njegovega trpljenja, ko sem njegovi smrti podoben,

¹⁰that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

¹¹da kako dospem do vstajenja izmed mrtvih.

¹¹if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

¹²Ne da sem že dosegel ali da sem že dovršen, a ženem se, da kako dosežem, za kar sem bil tudi dosežen od Kristusa Jezusa.

¹²Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

¹³Bratje, jaz ne mislim sam zase, da sem že dosegel; eno pa delam: pozabivši, kar je zadaj, a vzpenjajoč se po tem, kar je spredaj,

¹³Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

¹⁴hitim proti cilju za darilom nebeškega poklica Božjega v Kristusu Jezusu.

¹⁴I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Kolikor nas je torej popolnih, bodimo teh misli; in če ste v čem drugih misli, tudi to vam razodene Bog.

¹⁵Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

¹⁶Toda do česar smo dospeli, po tem stopajmo naprej!

¹⁶Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.

¹⁷Posnemalci moji bodite, bratje, in glejte na one, ki tako žive, kakor imate nas za zgled.

¹⁷Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

¹⁸Zakaj veliko jih živi, ki sem jih vam mnogokrat imenoval, zdaj pa jih tudi jokajoč imenujem sovražnike križa Kristusovega,

¹⁸For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

¹⁹katerih konec poguba, katerih Bog trebuh in njih slava v njih sramoti, ki jim je zemeljsko v mislih.

¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

²⁰Kajti naša domovna država je v nebesih, odkoder tudi pričakujemo Zveličarja, Gospoda Jezusa Kristusa,ki preobrazi telo ponižanja našega, da bode podobno telesu slave njegove, po moči, s katero si more tudi vse podvreči.

²⁰For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

²¹ki preobrazi telo ponižanja našega, da bode podobno telesu slave njegove, po moči, s katero si more tudi vse podvreči.

²¹who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.