True Worth Wey We Dey Find for Christ
Paul count all im credentials, im tribe, im training, and how e no get fault under the law, then e call the whole list rubbish compared to to know Christ and the righteousness wey come from our Papa. E careful to talk say e never reach: e dey forget wetin dey behind, e dey press forward. Im citizenship dey another place.
3 1Las las, my brothers and sisters, make una dey rejoice for inside Oga. To write di same tins again no be wahala for me, and e dey protect una.
2Dey watch out for di dogs, dey watch out for di bad workers, dey watch out for dem wey dey cut di flesh anyhow. a a v2 Paul dey mock dem wey dey insist on circumcision by calling dem 'di cutting' — na so e twist di word for circumcision on purpose. 3Na we be di real circumcision—we dey worship by di Spirit of our Papa, we dey boast for inside Christ Jesus, and we no dey trust anytin for di flesh, 4even though me sef fit get confidence for di flesh. If any oda person tink say e get ground to trust di flesh, na me get am pass: 5Dem circumcise me for di eighth day; I be Israelite from birth, from Benjamin tribe; Hebrew wey come from Hebrews; Pharisee wey dey follow di law. 6For zeal matter, I dey persecute di church; for correct-and-holy way under di law, nobody fit point finger for me.
7But wetin be gain to me before, now I don count am as loss because of Christ. 8Yes, I count everytin as loss because to know Christ Jesus my Oga get worth wey pass everytin. Because of am I don lose all tins, and I count dem as rubbish, so dat I fit gain Christ, 9and make dem find me for inside am, no be say I get my own correct-and-holy way wey come from di law, but di one wey come through faith for Christ—di correct-and-holy way wey come from our Papa, wey stand on faith, 10so dat I fit know am, di power of im resurrection, and to share for im suffering, dey become like am for im death, 11if somehow I fit reach di resurrection from di dead.
12No be say I don already get am, or say I don already perfect, but I dey press on so I fit grab dat tin wey Christ Jesus grab me for. 13My brothers, I no dey count myself say I don already grab am. But na one tin: I dey forget wetin dey my back, and I dey reach for wetin dey my front, 14I dey press toward di goal, for di prize of our Papa im call wey dey call us go up for heaven for inside Christ Jesus. 15Make all of us wey don mature tink like dis; and if una tink different for any tin, our Papa go reveal dat one too give una. 16Only make we hold true to wetin we don already reach.
17My brothers, join together dey follow my example, and dey watch dem wey dey live by di pattern wey una get for inside us. 18Plenty people dey live as enemy of Christ im cross—I don tell una dis tin plenty times, and now I dey talk am with tears for eye. 19Dia end na destruction, dia god na dia belle, dia glory na dia shame, dia mind fix only on tins of dis earth. 20But our home-and-citizen na for heaven; and na from dia we dey wait with eager mind for a Savior, di Oga Jesus Christ, 21wey go change our low body make e match im glorious body, by di power wey dey put all tins under imself.
