Philippians 3:5-14 - Righteousness Through Christ

⁵ I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was a Pharisee; ⁶ concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.

⁷ But whatever things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. ⁸ But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ ⁹ and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith, ¹⁰ that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death; ¹¹ if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

¹² Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before, ¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.