¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind^(A) and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on^(B) toward the goal to win the prize^(C) for which God has called^(D) me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Following Paul’s Example

¹⁵ All of us, then, who are mature^(E) should take such a view of things.^(F) And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.^{(G) 16} Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

¹⁷ Join together in following my example,^(H) brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.^{(I) 18} For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears,^(J) many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.^{(K) 19} Their destiny^(L) is destruction, their god is their stomach,^(M) and their glory is in their shame.^(N) Their mind is set on earthly things.^{(O) 20} But our citizenship^(P) is in heaven.^(Q) And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,^{(R) 21} who, by the power^(S) that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies^(T) so that they will be like his glorious body.^(U)