MODERN LITERAL VERSION

3:1 Furthermore, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Indeed, it is not tedious for me to write the same things to you*, but for your* certainty.
3:2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the mutilation.
3:3 For* we are the circumcision , who are giving-divine service in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;
3:4 although I myself might have confidence in the flesh; if any other is thinking to have confidence in the flesh, I yet even more.
3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew out of Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee;
3:6 according to zeal, I was persecuting the {F} congregation*; according to the righteousness which is in the law, I became blameless.
3:7 But what things were gain to me, I have deemed these a forfeiture because of Christ.
3:8 But therefore, I am also deeming all things indeed to be a forfeiture because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom, I did forfeit all things and am deeming them to be but trash, that* I may gain Christ,
3:9 and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, which is from the law, but which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God on the faith,
3:10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being transformed to his death;
3:11 if somehow I may achieve to the resurrection from the dead.
3:12 Not that I have already received it or have already been perfected in this, but I am pursuing it, if I might grab that for which I was also grabbed by Christ Jesus.
3:13 Brethren, I do not reason to have grabbed it, but one thing I indeed do, forgetting the things which are behind me and stretching forth to the things which are in front of me.
3:14 I am pursuing toward the goal for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.
3:15 Therefore as many as are mature, we should be mindful of this and if you* are mindful of anything differently, God will also reveal this to you*;
3:16 however in what we have attained, let us march by the same standard*, let us be mindful of the same things.

3:17 Brethren, become joint imitators with me, and note those who are walking so, just-as you* have us as an example.
3:18 For* many are walking, (of whom I told you* often before and tell you* now even weeping), who are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and whose glory is in their shame, who are mindful of earthly things.
3:20 For* our citizenship exists in the heavens; out of which we are also waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
3:21 He will fashion the body of our humbleness, *that* it may become transformed to the body of his glory according to the working of which he is able to even subject all things to himself.
{Footnotes: Phil 3:6 Or: church/the one true church, Eph 4:1-6; discussed more in the Appendix.}