but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp and to be with Christ, which is far better;

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name;

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.

I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,

who will change the fashion of the body of our abasement into the likeness of his glorious body by the energy with which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.