BRETHREN, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of
all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain
Christ, and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based
on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness
from God that depends on faith; that I may know him and the power of
his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in
his death, that if possible I may attain that resurrection from the
dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but
I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his
own. Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one
thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what
lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward
call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature be thus
minded; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that
also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Brethren,
join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an
example in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you
even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is
destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds
set on earthly things.
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