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;
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 apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus.
13. Brethren, I count not myself yet to have apprehended: 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 be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, even this shall God reveal unto you:
16. only, whereunto we have already attained, by that same rule let us walk.
17. Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them which so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.