while Israel, which strove after a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law of righteousness.

till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a fullgrown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

that their hearts may be encouraged, they being knit together in love, and that they may attain to all the riches of a full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;

in meekness admonishing those that oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance to attain the full knowledge of the truth,