⁷ Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.^{(A) 8} 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) 9} 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)

¹⁵ Let those of us, then, who are mature^[a] think this way, and if you think differently about anything, this, too, God will reveal to you.^{(A) 16} Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.^(B)

¹⁷ Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us.^{(C) 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.^{(D) 19} Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.^{(E) 20} But our citizenship^[b] 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^[c] that it may be conformed to the body of his glory,^[d] by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.^(F) 4 ¹ 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.