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Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

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Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,

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I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

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Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

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Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.

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Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.

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For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ

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Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

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For our country is in heaven from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

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By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.