003:006 as to zeal, a persecutor of the Church; as to the righteousness
which comes through Law, blameless.
003:007 Yet all that was gain to me—for Christ's sake I have
reckoned it loss.
003:008 Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,
003:009 not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ—the righteousness which comes from God through faith.
003:010 I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection,
and to share in His sufferings and die even as He died;
003:011 in the hope that I may attain to the resurrection from
among the dead.
003:012 I do not say that I have already won the race or have already
reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay
hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
003:013 Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it.
But this one thing I do—forgetting everything which is past
and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,
003:014 with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
003:015 Therefore let all of us who are mature believers cherish these thoughts; and if in any respect you think differently, that also God will make clear to you.