which comes from God through faith.
003:010 I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection,
and to share in His sufferings and die even as He died;
003:011 in the hope that I may attain to the resurrection from
among the dead.
003:012 I do not say that I have already won the race or have already
reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay
hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
003:013 Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it.
But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past
and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,
003:014 with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize
of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
003:015 Therefore let all of us who are mature believers cherish
these thoughts; and if in any respect you think differently,
that also God will make clear to you.
003:016 But whatever be the point that we have already reached,
let us persevere in the same course.
003:017 Brethren, vie with one another in imitating me, and carefully
observe those who follow the example which we have set you.
003:018 For there are many whom I have often described to you,
and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies
to the Cross of Christ.
003:019 Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God,
their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted
to earthly things.
003:020 We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting
with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour,
the Lord Jesus Christ,
003:021 who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject