Philippians 3:12-21 - Reaching Forward To God's Goal

¹² Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected: but I pursue, if I may apprehend that, for which I was also apprehended by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not account myself to have apprehended. ¹⁴ But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for 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 any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. ¹⁶ But whereunto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. ¹⁷ Brethren, be ye followers together of me, and mark them who walk so as ye have us for an example. ¹⁸ (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, ¹⁹ whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame; ²⁰ who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ Who will transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, acccording to the mighty working, whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.