12 Not that I have already aattained, or am already bperfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have1 apprehended; but one thing Ido,aforgetting those things which are behind and breaching forward to those things which are ahead,
14aI press toward the goal for the prize of bthe upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore let us, as many as are amature, bhave this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, cGod will reveal even this to you.
16 Nevertheless, to thedegree that we have already1 attained, alet us walk bby the same rule, let us be of the same mind.
Our Citizenship in Heaven
17 Brethren, ajoin in following my example, and note those who so walk, as byou have us for a pattern.
18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, thattheyareathe enemies of the cross of Christ:
19awhose end is destruction, bwhose god istheir belly, and cwhose glory is in their shame—dwho set their mind on earthly things.
20 For aour citizenship is in heaven, bfrom which we also ceagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21awho will transform our lowly body that it may be bconformed to His glorious body, caccording to the working by which He is able even to dsubdue all things to Himself.
high calling—literally, "the calling that is above" (Galatians 4:26; Colossians 3:1): "the heavenly calling" (Hebrews 3:1). "The prize" is "the crown of righteousness" (I Corinthians 9:24; II Timothy 4:8). Revelation 2:10, "crown of life." I Peter 5:4, "a crown of glory that fadeth not away." "The high," or "heavenly calling," is not restricted, as ALFORD thinks, to Paul's own calling as an apostle by the summons of God from heaven; but the common calling of all Christians to salvation in Christ, which coming from heaven invites us to heaven, whither accordingly our minds ought to be uplifted.
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