⁷But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. ⁸More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value ^wof knowing Christ ^xJesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ ^y⁹and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, ^zbut one that is through faith in Christ ^a—the righteousness from God based on faith. ^b¹⁰My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, ^cbeing conformed to His death, ^d¹¹assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.

Reaching Forward to God’s Goal

¹²Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold ^eof it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³Brothers, I do not ^fconsider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind ^gand reaching forward to what is ahead, ¹⁴I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly ^hcall in Christ Jesus. ⁱ

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

a3:9 Or through the faithfulness of Christ
f3:13 Other read not yet
h3:14 Or upward

Cross references

w3:8 Php 2:3
x3:8 Jn 17:3; 2Co 4:6; Gl 4:8–9; Php 1:15; Col 2:2; 1Jn 4:8
y3:8 1Pt 3:1
z3:9 Rm 10:5
b3:9 Rm 3:22; 10:4; Gl 2:21; Heb 11:7
c3:10 Rm 8:17; 2Co 1:5–7; Col 1:24; 1Pt 4:13; 5:1, 9
d3:10 Rm 6:5; 8:36; 2Co 4:7–12; 12:9–10; Gl 6:17
e3:12 Jn 1:5; 12:35; Rm 9:30; 1Co 9:24; Eph 3:18
g3:13 Lk 9:62; 17:31
i3:14 Rm 16:7; Eph 2:6; Php 1:1, 15; 1Pt 5:14