but those who are considered worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.

while Israel, though ever in pursuit of a law that would bring right standing, did not attain to it.

until we all attain to unity in faith and to perfect knowledge of the Son of God, namely, to a mature manhood and to a perfect measure of Christ's moral stature;

and have put on the new self which is in the process of being made new in the likeness of its Creator, so that you may attain a perfect knowledge of Him.

for God had provided something still better for us, that they, apart from us might not attain perfection.