「這不是說，我已經得著了，或已經完全了，我乃是竭力追求，或者可以取得基督耶穌所以取得我的。弟兄們，我不是以為自己已經取得了，我只有一件事，就是忘記背後，努力面前的，向著標竿竭力追求，要得神在基督耶穌裏，召我向上去得的獎賞。」（腓三12-14）
Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue, if even I may lay hold of that for which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal for the prize to which God in Christ Jesus has called me upward.(Php.3:12-14)
完全了，原文也有「完成了」或「成熟了」的意思，這裏保羅自認還沒有成熟，仍然在長大的過程中。「取得」，也可譯為「贏得，抓住，據有」，甚至可譯為「握住」。我們在悔改信主時，被基督贏得。而基督贏得了我們，目的是要我們贏得祂！
