Philippians Chapter 3 verse 6 Holy Bible
as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
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as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which [is] in [the] law, found blameless;
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Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
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concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Concerning zeal, persecuting the Church. He was not only a Pharisee, but an energetic, zealous Pharisee; he carried out the principles of his sect, thinking that he did God service by persecuting those whom he counted as heretics. Touching the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless. As far as "the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees" went, the righteousness which is "in Law," which consists, that is, in the observance of formal rules; or which is "of Law" (ver. 9), which springs, that is, from such observance, St. Paul was found blameless. "Rara sane laus et prope singularis," says Calvin, quoted by Alford; "videamus tureen quanti eam fecerit." (For the whole of this passage, comp. 2 Corinthians 11:21, 22.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Concerning zeal, persecuting the church.--The word "zeal" (as in Acts 22:3) is probably used almost technically to describe his adhesion to the principles of the "Zealots," who, following the example of Phinehas, were for "executing judgment" at once on all heathens as traitors, ready alike to slay or to be slain for the Law. He shows how in this he departed from the teaching of Gamaliel, when he was "exceedingly mad against" the Christians, and "persecuted them even unto strange cities."Touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.--The "righteousness in Law," which our Lord called "the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees" (Matthew 5:20), is the righteousness according to rule, in which a man, like the rich young ruler, might think himself "blameless," and even hope to go beyond it in "counsels of perfection"--not the righteousness according to principle, which can never fulfil or satisfy itself. While St. Paul confined himself to the lower form of righteousness, he could feel himself "blameless;" but when he began to discern this higher righteousness in the Law, then, he felt the terrible condemnation of the Law, on which he dwells so emphatically in Romans 7:7-12.
