Philippians 3

But whatever things were gain to me, those things 

I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 

More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value 

of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered 

the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and 

may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, 

but that which is through faith in Christ, 

the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the 

fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to His death; 

in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on 

so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; 

but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. 

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything 

you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; 

however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.

                                                                                                                ~Philippians 3:7-16