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Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.(A) More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ(B) and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ,[a] the righteousness from God based on faith.(C) 10 I want to know Christ[b] and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11 if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.(D)

Pressing toward the Goal

12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal,[c] but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ[d] has laid hold of me.(E) 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have laid hold[e] of it, but one thing I have laid hold of: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,(F) 14 I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly[f] call of God in Christ Jesus.(G) 15 Let those of us, then, who are mature[g] think this way, and if you think differently about anything, this, too, God will reveal to you.(H) 16 Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.(I)

17 Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us.(J) 18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.(K) 19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.(L) 20 But our citizenship[h] is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 21 He will transform the body of our humiliation[i] that it may be conformed to the body of his glory,[j] by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.(M) Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Footnotes

  1. 3.9 Or through the faith of Christ
  2. 3.10 Gk him
  3. 3.12 Or have already been made perfect
  4. 3.12 Other ancient authorities read Christ Jesus
  5. 3.13 Other ancient authorities read yet laid hold
  6. 3.14 Gk upward
  7. 3.15 Or perfect
  8. 3.20 Or commonwealth
  9. 3.21 Or our humble bodies
  10. 3.21 Or his glorious body