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Pressing toward the Goal

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

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Footnotes

  1. 3.12 Or have already been made perfect
  2. 3.12 Other ancient authorities read Christ Jesus
  3. 3.13 Other ancient authorities read yet laid hold
  4. 3.14 Gk upward
  5. 3.15 Or perfect