Philippians 3:4–14

⁴Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more:

⁵Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, a Pharisee:

⁶According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

⁷But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.

⁸Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.

⁹And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

¹⁰That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,

¹¹If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from the dead.

¹²Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus.

¹³Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one thing I do: Forgetting the things that are behind and stretching forth myself to those that are before,

¹⁴I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.