BAFILIPI 3

Kaelo ya gore ba itise mo go ba ba senyang thuto. Keresete ke tshiamo ya rona ka tumelo

1 Gape, ba ga etsho, itumeleng mo Moreneng. Go lo kwalela dilo di le dingwe fela, nna ga go ntapise, mme lona go a lo tiisa.t
2 Itiseng mo dintšweng, itiseng mo badiring ba ba bosula, itiseng mo go segakweng!t 3 Gonne ba ba rupileng tota ke rona ba re direlang Modimo ka Mowa, re ipoka ka Keresete Jesu, re sa ikanye nama,t 4 le fa nna ke na le go ka ikanya nama le yona. Fa yo mongwe a re a ka ikanya nama, nna ke a mo gaisa:t 5 Ke rupile ka letsatsi la borobedi, ke wa losika lwa ga Iseraele, wa lotso lwa ga Benyamene, ke Mohebere wa Bahebere, ke Mofarisai ka fa molaong;t 6 ka fa tlhoafalong ke ne ke le mmogisi wa phuthego, ka fa tshiamong e e leng ka molao ke sa nyatsege. 7 Mme tse e neng e le khumo mo go nna ke di kaile tshenyegelo ka ntlha ya ga Keresete.t 8 Ruri ke kaya dilo tsotlhe tshenyegelo ka ntlha ya kitso e kgolo ya go itse Keresete Jesu Morena wa me yo ke latlhileng dilo tsotlhe tseo ka ntlha ya gagwe; ke bile ke di kaya matlakala gore ke hume Keresete, 9 ke be ke fitlhelwe mo go ene, ke se na tshiamo ya me e e tswang mo molaong, mme e le e e bonwang ka go dumela mo go Keresete, e bong tshiamo e e tswang mo Modimong ka tumelot 10 ya go itse ene le thata ya tsogo ya gagwe le go kopana nae mo dipogong tsa gagwe ka go dirwa yo o tshwanang le loso lwa gagwe,t

11 e tle e re gongwe ke fitlhe mo tsogong ya baswi.

Moapostolo o sianela kwa pele go bona botlalo jwa bokeresete. Kaelo ya gore ba mo etse

14 Ke sianela bokhutlong jwa tshiano, ke tabogela sekgele sa pitso ya legodimo ya Modimo mo go Keresete Jesu.t
15 Jaanong rona rotlhe ba re tletseng, a re nneng le kgopolo e e ntseng jalo; mme fa lo ka akanya sengwe ka go sele, le sona Modimo o tla se lo senolela.t

16 Mme fela, a re tsamaeng mo go sone se re setseng re fitlhile mo go sone; re nne mo kutlwanong.t
17 Ba ga etsho, nnang baetsi ba ka lotlhe, lo ele ba ba tsamayang jalo tlhoko, jaaka re le sekao sa lona;t 18 gonne ba bantsi ba ke lo boleletseng gantsi ka ga bone, mme jaanong ke bile ke lo bolelela ka selelo gore ba tshela e le baba ba sefapaano sa ga Keresete.t 19 Bokhutlo jwa bone ke tatlhego, modimo wa bone ke mpa, tlotlo ya bone ke ditlhong tsa bone; ba gopola tsa lefatshe fela.t 20 Mme rona legae la rona le kwa magodimong, re bile re lebeletse Mopholosi go boa teng, e bong Morena Jesu Keresete,t 21 yo o tla fetolang mebele e e seng ya sepe ya rona gore e tshwane le mmele wa gagwe wa kgalalelo ka fa thateng e a nonofileng go ka tsenya tsotlhe mo taolong ya gagwe ka yona.t

Philippians 3

The Goal of Life

1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;3 for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,4 although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;16 however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.

17 Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.