7. Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
8. Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may gain Christ,
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 of 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;