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13 Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of it.* But I do one thing, forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

12 Not that I have already received this,* or have already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.*13 Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of it.* But I do one thing, forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Imitate Paul

15 Therefore as many as are perfect, let us hold this opinion*, and if you think anything differently, God will reveal this also to you.

17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

A New Birth to a Living Hope

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

10 Create a clean heart for me, O God,

and renew a steadfast spirit within me.*

11 Do not cast me away from your presence,

and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

7 Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him.

Do not fret about one who succeeds in his way,

about a man making plots.

8 Taste and see that Yahweh is good;

blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

31 But* those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength.

They shall go up with wings* like eagles;

they shall run and not grow weary;

they shall walk and not be faint.

11 For I know the plans that I am planning concerning you,’ declares* Yahweh, ‘plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.

25 And I will sprinkle on you pure water, and you will be clean from all of your uncleanness, and I will cleanse you from all of your idols. 26 And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give* into your inner parts, and I will remove the* heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will give* my spirit into your inner parts, and I will make it so that you will go* in my rules, and my regulations you will remember, and you will do them.

14 And to all these things add love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And the peace of Christ must rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

11 He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put the past* in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end.

10 For they disciplined us for a few days according to what seemed appropriate to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we can have a share in his holiness. 11 Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

Arrogant Boasting About the Future

13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit," 14 you who do not know what will happen tomorrow*, what your life will be like*. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears. 15 Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to the one who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.