Filipenses 3

1 Finally, 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.

2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision. 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ. 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a 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 9 and 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, 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death, 11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

13 Brothers, 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, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.

17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example. 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who 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.

Te Tikanga Pono

1 Heoi, e ōku tēina kia hari i roto i te Ariki. Ki ahau kāhore he hōhā o te tuhituhi atu i aua mea nei anō ki a koutou; ki a koutou ia hei mea e ū ai.

2 Kia tūpato ki ngā kurī, kia tūpato ki ngā kaimahi i te kino, kia tūpato ki te tapahanga. 3 Ko tātou hoki te kotinga, e mahi nei ki te Atua i runga i te wairua, e whakamanamana nei ki a Karaiti Īhu, kāhore nei e ū te whakaaro ki te kikokiko. 4 Otirā, tērā anō ahau e ū te whakaaro ki te kikokiko ki te whakaaro tētahi atu tangata he mea tāna e ū ai tōna whakaaro ki te kikokiko, tērā atu anō tāku. 5 Ko te kotinga i te rā tuawaru, nō te whānau a Īharaira, nō te hapū o Pineamine, he Hiperu nō ngā Hiperu; ki tō te ture he Parihi; 6 mō te ngākau nui ki te Atua, i whakatoi ahau i te hāhi; mō te tika, arā mō tērā i te ture, kāhore he kupu mōku.

7 He ahakoa rā, ko ngā mea i waiho rā e ahau hei taonga ki ahau, kua kīia ake e ahau hei rukenga, i te mea ka whakaaro nei ki a te Karaiti. 8 Āe rā, kīia iho e ahau ngā mea katoa hei rukenga, i te mea ka whakaaro nei ki te pai whakaharahara o te mātauranga ki a Karaiti Īhu, ki tōku Ariki. He whakaaro nei ki a ia i riro ai ēnā mea katoa ōku ki te kore, āe rā, kīia iho e ahau hei paru, kia whiwhi ai ahau ki a te Karaiti; 9 kia kitea ai hoki kei roto ahau i a ia, kāhore he tika ōku ake, arā he tika i te ture, engari ko tērā e nā runga ana mai i te whakapono ki a te Karaiti, ko te tika a te Atua nā te whakapono. 10 Kia mātau ai ahau ki a ia, ki te kaha hoki o tōna aranga mai, ki te urunga tahitanga hoki ki ōna mamae, he mea whakaahua kia rite ki tōna matenga; 11 me kore ahau e tutuki ki te aranga mai i roto i te hunga mate.

E Tāwhai ana ki te Tohu

12 Ehara i te mea kua mau rawa ahau, kua tino rite rānei ahau; engari e whāia atu ana e ahau, me kore e mau i ahau te mea i mau ai ahau i a Karaiti Īhu. 13 E ōku tēina, kāhore āku kīanga ake kua mau i ahau, kotahi ia tāku, wareware ake i ahau ngā mea ō muri, whātoro tonu atu ki ngā mea i mua, 14 ka tāwhai tonu ahau ki te tohu, ki te utu whakahōnore o tō runga karangatanga a te Atua, i roto i a Karaiti Īhu.

15 Nā reira, ko te hunga o tātou kua tino rite, kia pēnei ō tātou whakaaro; ā, ki te rerekē ō koutou whakaaro ki tētahi mea, mā te Atua anō tēnei e whakakite ki a koutou. 16 Engari, ko te wāhi kua taea atu e tātou ko tērā anō hei tikanga mō tā tātou haere.

17 Kia rite tō koutou ki tōku, e ōku tēina, tirohia hoki te hunga e rite ana te haere ki tā mātou kua waiho nei hei tauira mō koutou. 18 He tokomaha hoki kei te haere, ka maha nei ngā wā i kōrerotia ai rātou e ahau ki a koutou, ā, ka kōrerotia nei ināianei me te tangi anō ahau, he hoa whawhai rātou ki te rīpeka o te Karaiti. 19 Ko te tukunga iho ki a rātou he whakangaro, tō rātou atua ko te kōpū, tō rātou korōria hoki kei runga i tō rātou whakamā, ko ngā mea o te whenua tā rātou e whakaaro ai. 20 Ko te rangi ia te wāhi i tangata whenua ai tātou; kei reira hoki te Kaiwhakaora e tāria atu nei e tātou, te Ariki, a Īhu Karaiti. 21 Māna nei e whakaahua kē tō tātou tinana tūtūā nei, kia rite ki tōna tinana korōria, i runga i te mahinga a tōna kaha e taea ai e ia te pēhi ngā mea katoa ki raro i a ia.