9. and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
10. that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
11. if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
12. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.
13. Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
14. I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:
16. only, whereunto we have attained, by that same rule let us walk.
17. Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
18. For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: