³ This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only^(A) true^(B) God, and the one you have sent^(C) —Jesus Christ.^(D)

⁸ More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value^(A) of knowing Christ^(B) Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ^(C)

² May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God^(A) and of Jesus our Lord.

⁸ For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless^(A) or unfruitful^(B) in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁰ For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord^[a] and Savior Jesus Christ,^(A) they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.^(B)

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge^(A) of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.^[a](B)