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.

¹ Kon nag samay bokk, bégleen ci Boroom bi. Duma sonn mukk ci di leen ko wax, ndax seen mucc moo ci aju.

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

² Moytuleen xaj yi, waaw moytuleen ñiy jëfe lu bon, ñoom ñi seen xarafal weesul wàññi yaramu nit.

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

³ Ndaxte nun noo xaraf tigi, nun ñiy màggal Yàlla ci Xel mu Sell mi, di damu ci Kirist Yeesu, te amunu jenn yaakaar ci matug nit.

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:

⁴ Ba tey manoon naa am yaakaar ci sama bopp; su nit doon damu, maa ciy raw.

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

⁵ Xarafoon naa ca ayu-bés ga, bokk ci bànni Israyil ci giiru Ben-yamin, di Ibrë ci deret ak ci meen. Bu dee ci yoonu Musaa ngeen bëgg a wax, ci tariixab Farisen laa bokkoon;

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

⁶ bu dee it ci mbirum farlu, daan naa fitnaal mbooloom ñi gëm Kirist; bu dee ci njub ci sàmm yoon, awma benn gàkk.

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

⁷ Waaye loolu lépp lu ma tegoon ay njariñ fa kanam Yàlla, dëddu naa ko ngir Kirist.

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

⁸ Rax-ca-dolli dëddu naa lépp ngir xéewali xam Kirist Yeesu sama Boroom, di xam-xam bu xóot, ba xel mënu koo takk. Moo tax ñàkk naa sama lépp, te def ko ni mbalit, ngir am cér ci Kirist.

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;

⁹ Na ma Yàlla fekk ci moom, waxuma ci njub gu aju ci sàmm yoon, waaye gu aju ci gëm Kirist, maanaam njub gi nu Yàlla sol ci kaw ngëm.

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

¹⁰ Moom laay ittewoo xam, ak doole ji ànd ak ndekkiteem, ma bokk ci ay coonoom, ba fekki ko ci deeyam,

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

¹¹ ngir man a séddu ci ndekkiteem, su ma ko manee am.

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.

¹² Waxuma ne jagoo naa ko ba noppi, waxuma it ne aji mat laa, waaye maa ngi daw, ngir jot li tax Kirist jël ma.

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,

¹³ Bokk yi, gëmuma ne jot naa ko ba noppi, waaye lenn lii laay def: fàtte li ma weesu, jublu ci li féete kanam,

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

¹⁴ di daw yen muj ga, ngir jot li ma Yàlla tax a woo, di cér bi ma Yàlla wooye te dencal ma ko ci asamaan ci darajay Kirist Yeesu.

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

¹⁵ Nun ñi mat nag, nanu xalaat loolu. Te su ngeen ci amee werantey xol, Yàlla dina leen ko leeralal.

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

¹⁶ Li am daal, fa seen ngëm tolloo, na fa seen jëf àgg.

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

¹⁷ Kon nag bokk yi, toppleen ma te xool ñiy roy ci li nu tëral diirub sunu ngan ci yéen.

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

¹⁸ Ndaxte jëfi ñu bare juuyoo na ak dee gi Kirist dee; loolu wax naa leen ko ba tàyyi, maa ngi koy waxaat léegi ak i jooy.

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

¹⁹ Alku lañuy mujje, ñoom ñiy jaami seen biir, di wonoo lu ruslu, tey wut yëfi àddina rekk.

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

²⁰ Waaye nun waa asamaan lanu, te noo ngi xaar Boroom bi Yeesu Kirist jóge fa, musalsi nu.

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.

²¹ Noonu dina soppi sunu yaram wu toroxlu, def ko ni yaramam wi ànd ak ndam dëppook kàttanam, gi ko man a nootal mbindeef yépp.