1As to the rest, Achim b'Moshiach of mine, have simcha in Adoneinu. ⁵⁷To keep writing the zelba thing ⁵⁸to you is not an irksome bother to me, but for you it is a te'udat bitachon (safeguard).

2Be shomer and on your guard and watch out for those ⁵⁹kelevim (dogs), ⁶⁰watch out for the evil po'alim (workers), watch out for the “circummutilators”. ⁶¹

3For we are the Bnei HaMilah, ⁶²the ones whose avodas kodesh is by the Ruach Hakodesh ⁶³and whose kavod is in Moshiach Yehoshua and who take no bitachon in the basar,

4Even though I could be having bitachon also in the basar. If any other person thinks he has grounds to have bitachon in the basar, I have more: ⁶⁴

5Bris milah on the eighth day; ⁶⁵from Bnei Yisroel by birth; of the tribe of Binyamin; a speaker of Lashon HaKodesh, Ivrit of Ivrit-speaking horim, a Hebrew of Hebrews; ⁶⁶with regard to the Torah, from the kat haPerushim; ⁶⁷

6With regard to kin'a (zealousness), persecuting the Adat HaMoshiach; ⁶⁸with regard to tzidkat HaTorah, ⁶⁹I was medakdekim bmitzvot unreproachable. ⁷⁰

7But what things were revach (gain, profit) to me, these things I considered loss, on account of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. ⁷¹

8But even more so, I consider all to be loss on account of the excellency of the da'as of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu, ⁷²on account of whom I suffered the loss of all things and I consider them as nothing, in comparison, that I may gain Moshiach, ⁷³

9And be found in him, not having my own Tzidkot (self-achieved righteousness, by definition a self-righteousness based on chumra stringency) ⁷⁴from gezetz, but the Tzedek ⁷⁵through emunah ⁷⁶in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the Tzidkat Hashem based upon emunah. ⁷⁷

10I want to have da'as of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and of the gevurah (power) of the Techiyas HaMoshiach and the deveykus (attachment to G-d) of Moshiachʼs yissurim (sufferings), ⁷⁸being formed into the mode of being of Moshiachʼs death, ⁷⁹

11If somehow I may attain to the Techiyas HaMesim.

12Not that already I obtained or already have been made shleimut, but I pursue this tachlis (final end, aim) that I may lay hold of ⁸⁰that for which I was laid hold of by Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. ⁸¹

13Achim b'Moshiach, I do not consider myself to have laid hold; ⁸²but one zach (thing) I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching forward to the things ahead,

14According to the tachlis I pursue the prize of the Shomayim Aliyah ascent of Hashem, the upward k'riah (call) of HaShem b'Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. ⁸³

15Therefore, as many as would be shleimut, let us think like this: ⁸⁴and if in anything your machshavot (thoughts) are different, ⁸⁵even this Hashem will reveal to you.

16Fort (nevertheless), let us march in line with what we have attained, let us hold to the same. ⁸⁶

17Achim b'Moshiach, together be imitators of me. ⁸⁷Take note of the ones walking as you have a mofet in us. ⁸⁸

18For many, of whom I was often telling you, and now also I say with weeping, walk as oyvim (enemies) of Moshiachʼs Etz. ⁸⁹

19Their destined end ⁹⁰is churban (destruction, Gehinnom). Their g-d is their appetite, ⁹¹and their kavod, what they glory in, is their bushah (shame). Their machshavot are set on the Olam Hazeh. ⁹²

20But the torat haEzrakhut ⁹³(citizenship) we conduct exists in Shomayim, ⁹⁴from where also we eagerly await a Moshi'a (Savior), a Go'el, Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,

21Who will transfigure the basar of our humiliation into the demut of the mode of being of the guf kavod of Moshiach, according to the pe'ulah ⁹⁵(action, work) of his ko'ach (power), ⁹⁶even to the subjecting of all things to himself. ⁹⁷