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Klei Kpă Ênô Sĭt
1Ti knhal tuč hră anei, kâo mtă kơ diih, Ơ phung ayŏng adei, mơak bĕ hlăm Khua Yang. Amâo jing klei ktrŏ ôh kơ kâo lŏ čih klei msĕ kơ diih, leh anăn klei anăn srăng mgang diih.
2Răng bĕ kơ phung mă bruă jhat, phung kâo pia asâo, phung mgưt khăt klĭt.
3Kyuadah drei jing phung khăt klĭt sĭt, phung kkuh mpŭ kơ Aê Diê hŏng Mngăt Myang Ñu, leh anăn mơak hlăm Krist Yêsu, leh anăn amâo knang kơ kđeh ôh.
4Wăt kâo pô msĕ mơh mâo klei dưi knang kơ klei năng tui si kđeh. Tơdah pô mkăn mĭn ñu dưi knang kơ kđeh, kâo dưi knang lu hĭn:
5 arăng khăt klĭt kâo ti hruê sa păn, sa čô hlăm phung ƀuôn sang Israel, mơ̆ng găp djuê Ƀenjamin, sa čô Hêbrơ phung Hêbrơ kkiêng; tui si klei bhiăn kâo jing sa čô Pharisi;
6 bi kơ klei hur har, kâo ngă jhat kơ Phung Sang Aê Diê; bi kơ klei kpă ênô tui si klei bhiăn, kâo amâo mâo klei arăng dưi ƀuah ôh.
7Ƀiădah ya klei tŭ dưn kâo mâo leh, kâo yap leh klei anăn msĕ si luč leh kyua Krist.
8Sĭt nik kâo yap jih jang mnơ̆ng msĕ si luč leh kyua klei thâo kral Krist Yêsu Khua Yang kâo jing yuôm êgao hĭn. Kyua Ñu kâo luč leh jih jang mnơ̆ng, leh anăn kâo yap mnơ̆ng anăn msĕ si djah, čiăng kơ kâo dưi mâo Krist,
9leh anăn dưi dôk hlăm Ñu, amâo mâo ôh klei kpă ênô kâo pô knang kơ klei bhiăn, ƀiădah klei kpă ênô kbiă hriê mơ̆ng klei đăo kơ Krist, klei kpă ênô kbiă hriê mơ̆ng Aê Diê knang kơ klei đăo;
10čiăng kơ kâo dưi thâo kral Krist leh anăn klei myang mơ̆ng klei Ñu kbiă lŏ hdĭp, leh anăn dưi tŭ klei knap mñai mbĭt hŏng Ñu, leh anăn dơ̆ng jing msĕ si Ñu hlăm klei Ñu djiê,
11čiăng kơ kâo dưi truh kơ klei kbiă lŏ hdĭp mơ̆ng phung djiê.
Êran Phă Anăp kơ Anôk Bi Kčah Leh
12Amâo djŏ ôh kâo mă tŭ leh klei mưn, amâodah truh leh kơ klei jăk klă, ƀiădah kâo hung phă anăp čiăng mă klei anăn kơ kâo pô, kyua kơ klei anăn Krist Yêsu mă leh kâo kơ Ñu pô.
13Ơ phung ayŏng adei, kâo amâo mĭn ôh kâo mâo mă leh klei anăn, ƀiădah kâo ngă sa mta klei, kâo wơr bĭt hĕ klei ti tluôn leh anăn hung kơ klei ti anăp.
14Kâo hung čiăng truh kơ anôk bi kčah, čiăng mă klei mưn jing klei Aê Diê iêu hlăm Krist Yêsu kơ klei hdĭp ti dlông.
15Brei phung khua leh hlăm phung drei mâo klei mĭn msĕ snăn; leh anăn tơdah diih mĭn kơ klei mkăn, Aê Diê srăng bi êdah klei anăn kơ diih msĕ mơh.
16Knŏng ti anôk drei truh leh brei drei ăt êbat mđrăm.
17 Ơ phung ayŏng adei, brei diih jing phung tui ngă msĕ si kâo, leh anăn brei diih ksiêm dlăng kơ phung hdĭp msĕ si klei bi hmô diih ƀuh hlăm hmei.
18Kyuadah tui si kâo blŭ leh jêñ jêñ kơ diih, leh anăn lŏ blŭ ară anei hŏng klei hia, mâo lu phung hdĭp msĕ si phung roh hŏng kyâo bi kal Krist.
19Klei knhal tuč diñu srăng jing klei rai luč. Tian diñu pô jing yang kơ diñu. Diñu mgao hlăm klei bi hêñ diñu, êjai mĭn kơ mnơ̆ng ti lăn ala.
20Ƀiădah čar drei dôk hlăm adiê, mơ̆ng anôk anăn drei dôk guôn sa čô Pô Bi Mtlaih, Khua Yang Yêsu Krist.
21Ñu srăng bi mlih asei mlei awăt drei brei jing msĕ si asei mlei guh kơang Ñu, hŏng klei myang Ñu dưi brei jih jang mnơ̆ng gưt kơ Ñu.
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No Confidence in the Flesh
1Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
2Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.
3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
4though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:
5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;
6as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
7But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
8What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ
9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in⚓ Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
10I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
11and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
13Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Following Paul’s Example
15All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
16Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.
18For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
19Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.
20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.