Phili 3:12-14, Heb 5:12, 9:14 | ISV | STEP | Pursuing the Goal It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:12-14

12 Pursuing the GoalIt's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by Christ Jesus.1Tim 6:12; Heb 12:23 13 Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it. ^{▼▼Other mss. read embraced it yet} But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,Ps 45:10; Luke 9:62; 1Cor 9:24, 26; 2Cor 5:16; Heb 6:1 14 I keep pursuing the goal to win the prize ^{▼▼Lit. the goal for the prize} of God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus.2Tim 4:7-8; Heb 3:1; 12:1

Hebrews 5:12

12 In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. ^{▼▼Or oracles} You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.1Cor 3:1-3; Heb 6:1

Hebrews 9:14

14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit ^{▼▼Other mss. read through the Holy Spirit} offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our ^{▼▼Other mss. read your} consciences from dead works so that we may serve the living God!Luke 1:74; Rom 1:4; Eph 2:5; Titus 2:14; Heb 1:3; 6:1; 7:27; 10:22; 1Pet 1:19; 3:18; 4:2; 1John 1:7; Rev 1:5