8More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ
9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ--the righteousness from God based on faith.
12Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
13Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,
21He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of his glorious body, by the power that enables him to subject everything to himself.