Passage

Reaching toward the goal

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

¹³Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Philippians 3:13World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The writer describes himself as still reaching forward, without claiming that he has already attained his goal.

To understand

He says Christ Jesus has taken hold of him. The next verse names the prize as God’s high calling in Christ Jesus.

A question

What prize gives direction to the writer’s pursuit?