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

¹² I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me. 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; ¹⁶ if only we guide our steps by the standards we have already attained. ¹⁷ Brothers, be comrades in imitating me, and study those whose life and walk is according to the pattern I have set you. ¹⁸ For there are many??s I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears??ho live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹ Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things. ²⁰ But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will change the fashion of the body of our abasement into the likeness of his glorious body by the energy with which he is able even to subject all things to himself.