Philippians 3:14

Reaching Forward To God's Goal

¹³ Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead, ¹⁴ I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;

Calling of God

Christ Jesus

Forgetting Those Things

From God

In Christ

Jesus Christ

Prize of the Upward Call

Purpose of God

Christ

Jesus

Mark

Messiah

1 Peter 5:10

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

1 Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

Luke 16:16

"The Law and the Prophet lasted until John; since then the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and any one presses in.

Romans 8:28-30

Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.

Romans 9:23-24

And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory?

2 Corinthians 4:17-1

For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

1 Thessalonians 2:12

exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

2 Timothy 4:7-8

I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith.

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

Hebrews 6:1

So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,

1 Peter 1:3-4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

1 Peter 1:13

So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:3

For his power divine has granted to us everything needful for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue.

Revelation 3:21

To him who overcomes, I will grant to sit down with me on my throne, as I myself have overcome and have taken my seat with my Father on his throne.