Philippians 3:13

Reaching Forward To God's Goal

¹² Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front, ¹⁴ I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

Forgetting Those Things

Christ

Luke 9:62

But Jesus answered: "No one who looks back, after putting his hand to the plough, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 6:1

Therefore, let us leave behind the elementary teaching about the Christ and press on to perfection, not always laying over again a foundation of repentance for a lifeless formality, of faith in God--

Hebrews 12:1-2

Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

Luke 10:42

But only a few are necessary, or rather one. Mary has chosen the good part, and it shall not be taken away from her."

Romans 15:23-29

But now there are no further openings for me in these parts, and I have for several years been longing to come to you whenever I may be going to Spain.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

2 Corinthians 5:16

For ourselves, then, from this time forward, we refuse to regard any one from the world's standpoint. Even if we once thought of Christ from the standpoint of the world, yet now we do so no longer.

Philippians 1:18-21

But what of that? Only that in some way or other, either with assumed or with real earnestness, Christ is being made known; and at that I rejoice.

Philippians 2:12

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as refuse, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him;

Philippians 4:11-13

Do not think that I am saying this under the pressure of want. For I, however I am placed, have learned to be independent of circumstances.

2 Peter 3:8

But you, dear friends, must never shut your eyes to the fact that, to the Lord, one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.