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

¹² Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it; ¹⁴ but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore let us, so many as are perfect, think the same thing: and if you think otherwise in any respect, God will also reveal this to you: ¹⁶ only, whereunto we have already attained, to walk by the same rule. ¹⁷ Be ye my imitators, brethren, and mark those thus walking about as you have us an example. ¹⁸ For many walk about, of whom I frequently spoke to you, and now I speak even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. ²⁰ For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: ²¹ who will transform the body of our humility, similitudinous to the body of his own glory, according to the energy by which he is able indeed to subdue all things to himself.