8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
( The understanding that I get from this is that everything should take a backseat to the pursuit of knowing Jesus Christ. We can not gain righteousness if we put the pursuits of this world ahead of those that bring us closer to Jesus. We must hold on the the faith that builds in the pursuit of Jesus Christ and that will give us the peace in knowing that when this life ends we will be with Christ when we are born a new in the kingdom of heaven. )
