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Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
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Brothers, I don`t regard myself as yet having laid hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
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I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, this God will also reveal that to you.
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Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.
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Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
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For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,