Philippians 3:4–14

⁴Though I have my trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, I rather: ⁵as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; ⁶as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which is in the law, found blameless; ⁷but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss. ⁸But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

⁹and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith, ¹⁰to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, ¹¹if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among the dead. ¹²Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus. ¹³Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing—forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before, ¹⁴I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.