¹³Brothers and sisters, I don’t consider that I have taken hold of it yet. But here is the one thing I do. I forget what is behind me. I push hard toward what is ahead of me. ¹⁴I move on toward the goal to win the prize. God has appointed me to win it. The heavenly prize is Christ Jesus himself.

¹⁵All of us who are grown up in the faith should see things that way. Maybe you think differently about something. But God will make it clear to you. ¹⁶Only let us live up to what we have already reached.

¹⁷Brothers and sisters, join with others in following my example. Pay close attention to those who live in keeping with the pattern we gave you.

¹⁸I have told you those things many times before. Now I say it again with tears in my eyes. Many people live like enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹The only thing they have coming to them is death. Their stomach is their god. They brag about what they should be ashamed of. They think only about earthly things.

²⁰But we are citizens of heaven. And we can hardly wait for a Savior from there. He is the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹He has the power to bring everything under his control. By his power he will change our earthly bodies. They will become like his glorious body.

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