6. as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
7. But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
8. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ
9. and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
10. I want to know Christ – yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
11. and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.