8. More than that, I even consider all things to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them dung, in order that I may gain Christ
9. and may be found in him, not having my righteousness which is from the law, but which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith,
10. so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
11. if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12. Not that I have already received this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.
13. Brothers, 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,
14. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15. Therefore as many as are perfect, let us hold this opinion, and if you think anything differently, God will reveal this also to you.