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

¹² Not that I have already attained, or am now perfect: but I pursue, that I may overtake that for which also by his apprehension of me I am destined by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before, ¹⁴ I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let as many of us therefore as are perfect, be thus minded: and if ye entertain any other sentiment, God also will unveil this unto you. ¹⁶ Nevertheless, so far as we have advanced, be it our care to walk by the same rule, to mind the same thing. ¹⁷ Be ye imitators, brethren, of me, and eye attentively those who walk so as ye have us for an example. ¹⁸ For many walk, whom I have often mentioned to you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹ whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things. ²⁰ But our conversation is in heaven as its citizens, from whence also we are expecting the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who shall transform our body of humiliation, that it may be conformed to his body of glory, according to the effectual working of him who is able to subdue even all things to himself.