Philippians 3:7-16

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁷ But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. ⁸ More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value^(A) of knowing Christ^(B) Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ^{(C) 9} and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law,^(D) but one that is through faith in Christ^[a]—the righteousness from God based on faith.^{(E) 10} My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings,^(F) being conformed to His death,^{(G) 11} assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.

Reaching Forward to God’s Goal

¹² Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold^(H) of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I do not^[b] consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind^(I) and reaching forward to what is ahead, ¹⁴ I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly^[c] call in Christ Jesus.^{(J) 15} Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal^(K) this also to you. ¹⁶ In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained.