Philippians 3:12-21

12Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I press on, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended by Christ Jesus. 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are before, 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you. 16Nevertheless, to what we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

17Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them who walk even as ye have us for an example. 18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20For our citizenship is in heaven; from which also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:1 21Who shall change our lowly body, that it may be fashioned like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.