¹²Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold^o of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³Brothers and sisters, I do not^A consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind^p and reaching forward to what is ahead, ¹⁴I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly^B call in Christ Jesus.^q ¹⁵Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal^r this also to you. ¹⁶In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained. ¹⁷Join in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and pay careful attention to those who live according to the example you have in us. ¹⁸For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross^s of Christ. ¹⁹Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory^t is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things, ²⁰Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of his glorious^u body,^v by the power that enables him to subject everything to himself.

4So then, my dearly loved and longed for brothers and sisters, my joy and crown,^w in this manner stand firm^x in the Lord, dear friends.

Read in Logos

Philippians 3:12: 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.

Footnotes

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BOr upward

Cross references

o Jn 1:5; 12:35; Rm 9:30; 1Co 9:24; Eph 3:18
p Lk 9:62; 17:31
q Rm 16:7; Eph 2:6; Php 1:1,15; 1Pt 5:14
r Lk 10:21
s Lk 23:26; 1Co 1:17; Gl 6:12
t Lk 14:10; Jn 5:41,44; 8:50,54; 12:43; Rm 9:4; 1Co 11:15; 2Co 6:8; 1Th 2:6
u 1Pt 5:4
v 1Co 6:13; 1Jn 3:2
w Rv 12:1
x Rm 14:4; 1Co 16:13; Php 1:27; 2:2