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 filth, so that I may gain Christ^(C)

Growth in the Faith

³ His^[a] divine power^(A) has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge^(B) of Him who called^(C) us by^[b] His own glory and goodness.

⁸ For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, 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 our Lord 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) Amen.^[b]