"Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."
In today's quote, Paul demands that the children of God continuously strive toward perfection realizing that we are imperfect beings and that perfection can only come to us through faith in the perfect righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul said we should continually look for "the saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself."
If any lost person places his/her absolute faith in life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God will transform their old body of sin into the perfection that is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Salvation only comes to those who appear wholly righteous and without sin before God. As Paul said, in Romans 4:5 faith fulfills the righteousness requirement for salvation, "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."~
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