Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹³ Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things behind and stretching-toward the things ahead, ¹⁴ I am pressing-on toward the goal for the prize of the upward^[a] calling from God in Christ Jesus.

All Who Claim To Be Mature: Think This Same Way. Imitate Me

¹⁵ Therefore, all who are mature— let us be thinking^[b] this. And if you are thinking anything differently, God will reveal this also to you. ¹⁶ Nevertheless, to what thinking we attained, by the same let us be walking-in-line. ¹⁷ Be fellow-imitators of me, brothers, and be watching the ones walking in this manner, just as you have us as a pattern.

For There Are Many Enemies of The Cross. They Focus On Earthly Things

¹⁸ For many walk as to whom I was often saying to you, and now even weeping say, they are the enemies of the cross of Christ— ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach and glory is in their shame— the ones thinking^[c] the earthly things.

And Our Citizenship Is In Heaven

²⁰ For our place-of-citizenship is in the heavens, from where also we are eagerly-awaiting the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ Who will transform the body of our lowliness^[d] so as to be similar-in-form^[e] to the body of His glory, according-to the working that enables Him also to subject all things to Himself.

So My Beloved, Stand Firm In This Manner

4 So then, my beloved and yearned-for brothers, my joy and crown, be standing-firm in this manner in the Lord, beloved.