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

¹² not that I have yet won the prize, or am already perfect: but I press forward to acquire that perfection, for which also I have been apprehended by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to those before, ¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, attend to this: and if in any thing ye think differently, God will reveal this also unto you. ¹⁶ But in what we have attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. ¹⁷ Brethren, be imitators of me, and observe those that walk as ye have us for an example. ¹⁸ (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, ¹⁹ whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven, ²⁰ from whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ: who will change our vile body, ²¹ that it may be made like his glorious body, according to the energy of his ability to subdue all things to Himself.