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Philippians 3:6

Weymouth NT

as to zeal, a persecutor of the Church; as to the righteousness which comes through Law, blameless.

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»Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you wash clean the outside of the cup or dish, while within they are full of greed and self-indulgence.«

For I assure you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you will certainly not find entrance into the Kingdom of the Heavens.

They were both of them upright before God, blamelessly obeying all the Lord's precepts and ordinances.

And they, when they had heard his statement, gave the glory to God. Then they said, »You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of Jews there are among those who have accepted the faith, and they are all zealous upholders of the Law.

as the High Priest also and all the Elders can bear me witness. It was, too, from them that I received letters to the brethren in Damascus, and I was already on my way to Damascus, intending to bring those also who had fled there, in chains to Jerusalem, to be punished.

For they all know me of old –if they would but testify to the fact– how, being an adherent of the strictest sect of our religion, my life was that of a Pharisee.

But Saul cruelly harassed the Church. He went into house after house, and, dragging off both men and women, threw them into prison.

Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;

Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.

For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle–because I persecuted the Church of God.

so that you may always prove yourselves to be blameless and spotless–irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as heavenly lights in the world,

not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ–the righteousness which comes from God through faith.

though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and had been insolent in outrage. Yet mercy was shown me, because I had acted ignorantly, not having as yet believed;




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