Philippians 3:12-21 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.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² 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. ¹³ 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, ¹⁴ I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let all of us, then, whose faith is mature, think thus. Then, if on any matter you think otherwise, God will make that also plain to you. ¹⁶ Only we are bound to order our lives by what we have already attained. ¹⁷ Brothers, unite in following my example, and fix your eyes on those who are living by the pattern which we have set you. ¹⁸ For there are many--of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears--who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ. ¹⁹ The end of such men is Ruin; for their appetites are their God, and they glory in their shame; their minds are given up to earthly things. ²⁰ But the State of which we are citizens is in Heaven; and it is from Heaven that we are eagerly looking for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ Who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his Glory.