Philippians 3:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law , blameless.

Philippians 3:6 —

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Galatians 1:13-14
For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: …
Acts 8:3
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
Acts 26:9-10
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. …
Acts 22:3-4
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. …
Matthew 5:20
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-8)

The apostle here proposes himself for an example of trusting in Christ only, and not in his privileges as an Israelite. I. He shows what he had to boast of as a Jew and a Pharisee. Let none think that the apostle despised these things (as men commonly do) because he had them not himself to glory in. No, if he would have gloried and trusted in the flesh, he had as much cause to do so as any man: If…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Concerning--Translate as before and after, “As touching Zeal” (compare Ac 22:3; 26:9). blameless--Greek, “having become blameless” as to ceremonial righteousness: having attained in the eyes of man blameless legal perfection. As to the holiness before God, which is the inner and truest spirit of the law, and which flows from “the righteousness of God by faith,” he on the contrary declares (Php…