a few verses

Philippians 3

 7 I once thought these things were valuable, 

but now I consider (everything) worthless because of what Christ has done. 

8 Yes, everything else is worthless 

when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. 

For his sake I have discarded everything else, 

counting it all as garbage, 

so that I could gain Christ 

9 and become one with him. 

I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; 

rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. 

For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. 

10 I want to know Christ 

and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead.

12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things 

or that I have already reached perfection. 

But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 

13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, 

but I focus on this one thing: 

Forgetting the past 

and looking forward to what lies ahead, 

14 I press on 

to reach the end of the race 

and receive the heavenly prize 

for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

20 But we are citizens of heaven, 

where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. 

And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. 

21 He will take our weak mortal bodies 

and change them into glorious bodies like his own, 

using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.