Philippians 3:13–21

¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of it.^* But I do one thing, forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Imitate Paul

¹⁵Therefore as many as are perfect, let us hold this opinionⁱ, and if you think anything differently, God will reveal this also to you. ¹⁶Only to what we have attained, to the same hold on. ¹⁷Become fellow imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who walk in this way, just as you have us as an example. ¹⁸For many live, of whom I spoke about to you many times, but now speak about even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, ¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose God is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, the ones who think on earthly things. ²⁰For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹who will transform our humble body to be conformed to his glorious body, in accordance with the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.