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 as dung, 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.