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

¹² Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, ¹⁴ I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you. ¹⁶ But, at what we before arrived, to walk by the same rule, to think the same. ¹⁷ Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type. ¹⁸ (For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹ Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.) ²⁰ For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: ²¹ Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself.