Give him, then, the heartiest of Christian welcomes, and hold such men in great honour.

But all the things which I once held to be gains I have now, for the Christ's sake, come to count as loss.

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.

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,