⁴ though I myself have reasons for such confidence.^(A)

If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: ⁵ circumcised^(B) on the eighth day, of the people of Israel,^(C) of the tribe of Benjamin,^(D) a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;^{(E) 6} as for zeal,^(F) persecuting the church;^(G) as for righteousness based on the law,^(H) faultless.

⁷ But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss^(I) for the sake of Christ. ⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing^(J) Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ^{(K) 9} and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,^(L) but that which is through faith in^[a] Christ—the righteousness^(M) that comes from God on the basis of faith.^{(N) 10} I want to know^(O) Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings,^(P) becoming like him in his death,^{(Q) 11} and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection^(R) from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal,^(S) but I press on to take hold^(T) of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.^{(U) 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^(V) and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on^(W) toward the goal to win the prize^(X) for which God has called^(Y) me heavenward in Christ Jesus.