2 Look out for dogs, look out for the evil workers, look out for the mutilation!
3 For we are the circumcision, who are serving Elohim in the Spirit, and boasting in Messiah יהושע, and do not trust in the flesh,
4 though I too might have trust in the flesh. If anyone else thinks to trust in the flesh, I more –
5 circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Yisra’ĕl, of the tribe of Binyamin, a Heḇrew of Heḇrews, according to Torah a Pharisee,
6 according to ardour, persecuting the assembly; according to righteousness that is in the law, having become blameless.
7 But what might have been a gain to me, I have counted as loss, because of Messiah.
8 What is more, I even count all to be loss because of the excellence of the knowledge of Messiah יהושע my Master, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them as refuse, in order to gain Messiah,