¹² He said, “Do not reach out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him; for now ^(A)I know that you ^[a]fear God, since you have not withheld ^(B)your son, your only son, from Me.”

⁸ More than that, I count all things to be loss ^[a]in view of the surpassing value of ^[b](A)knowing ^(B)Christ Jesus my Lord, ^[c]for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and may be found in Him, not having ^(C)a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, ^(D)the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, ¹⁰ that I may ^(E)know Him and ^(F)the power of His resurrection and ^[d](G)the fellowship of His sufferings, being ^(H)conformed to His death;

² that their ^(A)hearts may be encouraged, having been ^(B)knit together in love, and that they would attain to all ^(C)the wealth ^[a]that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a ^(D)true knowledge of ^(E)God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself,

¹⁵ and that ^(A)from childhood you have known ^(B)the sacred writings which are able to ^(C)give you the wisdom that leads to ^(D)salvation through faith which is in ^(E)Christ Jesus.