Philippians 3:5-14 - Righteousness Through Christ

⁵ I was circumcised when eight days old; I am an Israelite by race, and of the tribe of Benjamin; I am a Hebrew, and the child of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee; ⁶ As to zeal, I was a persecutor of the Church; as to such righteousness as is due to Law, I proved myself blameless.

⁷ But all the things which I once held to be gains I have now, for the Christ's sake, come to count as loss. ⁸ More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as refuse, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him; ⁹ Any righteousness that I have being, not the righteousness that results from Law, but the righteousness which comes through faith in Christ--the righteousness which is derived from God and is founded on faith. ¹⁰ Then indeed I shall know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and all that it means to share his sufferings, ¹¹ In the hope that, if I become like him in death, I may possibly attain to the resurrection from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front, ¹⁴ I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.