in order that you may distinguish those things which differ; that you may be pure and without offence in the day of Christ;

and not being intimidated in anything by the adversaries: which is to them the manifestation of destruction, but of your salvation, and this is from God;

Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus:

in reference to zeal, persecuting the church, according to righteousness which was in the law being blameless.

Those things which were gained to me, these I counted loss for the sake of Christ.

and may be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ, the righteousness of God through faith:

if perchance I may attain unto the resurrection which is out from the dead.

Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus.

but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

who will transform the body of our humility, similitudinous to the body of his own glory, according to the energy by which he is able indeed to subdue all things to himself.

Not that I speak concerning deficiency: for I have learned to be content with those things amid which I am.