Philippians 3:8-21 ▼

8 But indeed, therefore, I also deem all things to be loss because of the surpassing knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I have lost all things and deem them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

9 and may be found in Him, not having my own righteousness that is of the law, but that which is through faith from Christ, the righteousness of God upon faith,

10 to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

11 if somehow I may attain to the resurrection out from the dead.

12 Not that I already obtained it or already have been perfected, but I pursue, if also I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

13 Brothers, I do not reckon myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing: Indeed, forgetting the things behind and stretching forward to the things ahead,

14 I pursue toward the goal for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Therefore as many as are mature, we should be of this mind. And if you? are minded in anything differently, even this God will reveal to you?.

16 However, to that which we have attained, walk by the same.

17 Be imitators together of me, brothers, and look at those walking thus, as you? have a pattern in us.

18 For many walk—of whom I told you? often, and now I say even weeping—as enemies of the cross of Christ,

19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and their glory is in their shame, those minding earthly things.

20 For our citizenship is in the heavens, from where also we eagerly await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

21 who will transform our body of humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working of His powering, even to subject all things to Himself.