Philippians 3:7-14 Christian righteousness, and the knowledge of Christ

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 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 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. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Jesus said in the gospels, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. Nobody comes to the father except through me." A corollary to this could rightfully be said that no man has righteousness except in me. You see, when Jesus conquered death through the resurrection of the dead, he paved the way for eternal life. In Genesis is says "Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. So the way of obtaining righteous in the New Testament era is to believe what God says about the Son and to believe what the Son proclaims about himself. That he is Lord, the everlasting Savior, that he died for our forgiveness so that eternal life may be our possession.