8. Nothing is as wonderful as knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have given up everything else and count it all as rubbish. All I want is Christ
9. and to know that I belong to him. I could not make myself acceptable to God by obeying the Law of Moses. God accepted me simply because of my faith in Christ.
10. All I want is to know Christ and the power that raised him to life. I want to suffer and die as he did,
11. so that somehow I also may be raised to life.