Verse 7. But what things were gain] The credit and respect which I had, as being zealously attached to the law, and to the traditions of the elders, I counted loss for Christ - I saw that this could stand me in no stead; that all my acts of righteousness were nothing on which I could depend for salvation; and that Christ crucified could alone profit me; for I found that it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sin.
BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME - The advantages of birth, of education, and of external conformity to the law. “I thought these to be gain - that is, to be of vast advantage in the matter of salvatio...
III. CHRIST, THE OBJECT AND THE GOAL CHAPTER 3 __ 1. The true circumcision (Philippians 3:1) 2. Paul's past experience (Philippians 3:4) 3. The one passion (Philippians 3:8)...
PHP_3:4-9. PRIVILEGE AND RENUNCIATION. The contrast between Jew and Christian leads Paul to refer to himself in a striking autobiographical passage, which, though brief, may be compared for spirit and...
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE JOY (Php_3:1) _ 3:1 As for what remains, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble to me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe._ Paul sets down two very...
And yet it remains true that I have every ground of confidence from the human point of view. If anyone has reason to think that he has grounds for confidence in his human heritage and attainments, I h...
GAIN. Greek. _kerdos._ See Philippians 1:21. Note the seven gains in verses: Philippians 3:5; Philippians 3:6 COUNTED. Same as "esteem",...
_what things_ The Greek might almost be paraphrased, "the _kind_or _class_of things which"; including anything and everything, as ground of reliance, other than Christ. So more fully, Philippians 3:8....
ST PAUL’S OWN EXPERIENCE AS A CONVERTED PHARISEE, AND ITS LESSONS...
ἈΛΛᾺ. So (or ἀλλʼ) אcBD2*, the mass of cursives, vulg syrr copt, Aug. אAG, 17, Cyr Al6 om ἀλλὰ. 7. ἈΛΛᾺ ἍΤΙΝΑ. Almost, “But the kind of things which.” Ἅτινα is just more than ἅ. He thinks not only of...
ΗΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΚΈΡΔΗ _пот. pl. от_ ΚΈΡΔΟΣ (G2771) выгода, заработок (_см._ Philippians 1:21). ΉΓΗΜΑΙ _perf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΉΓΈΟΜΑΙ (G2233) считать, подводить итоги,...
DISCOURSE: 2152 THE EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST Philippians 3:7. _What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but toss for the excell...
THOSE I COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST.— That is, "I _threw them away,_ as mariners do their goods, on which they before set a value, lest they should endanger their lives:" in which sensethe word ζημια is u...
7. HOWBEIT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THESE HAVE I COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST. _Translation and Paraphrase_ 7. Nevertheless (in spite of all the Jewish distinctions which I can legitimately claim), w...
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. GAIN, [ kerdee (G2771)] - 'gains:' all possible advantages of outward status which he heretofore enjoyed. I COUNTED, [ heegeemai...
_ THE LIVING EXAMPLES_ 19 The word soul has lost its significance in English, especially in its compounds, hence we render idiomatically "good cheer," for "well souled" and "equally sensitive" for "e...
DANGERS AND HOPES OF THE PRESENT SITUATION _V. Interjected Warnings (Philippians 3:1)_ § 11. PHILIPPIANS 3:1. FINALLY (lit. 'For the rest'), MY BRETHREN, brings the close of the letter in sight (see...
LETTER OF JOY Paul’s Letter to the Philippians _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 PAUL WARNS THEM AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS 3:1-3 V1 Finally, my friends, *rejoice in the *Lord. To write the same things to yo...
[7. Words of Warning (Philippians 3:1 to Philippians 4:3). (1) AGAINST THE JUDAISERS. (_a_) _Warning against confidence_ “_in the flesh,”_ illustrated by his own renunciation of all Jewish privileg...
I COUNTED LOSS... — Not merely worthless, but worse than worthless; because preventing the sense of spiritual need and helplessness which should bring to Christ, and so, while “gaining all the world,”...
CHAPTER 10 NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH. Philippians 3:1 (R.V.) THE third chapter contains the portion of this Epistle in which, perhaps, one is hardest put to it to keep pace with the writer. Here he...
ἀλλʼ ἅτινα. Although in later Greek ὅστις had lost almost all its peculiar force and become simply = ὅς (_e.g._, Matthew 22:2, etc. _Cf._ Jebb in Vincent and Dickson's _Handbook_, p. 302), one feels t...
EARTHLY GAINS COUNTED LOSS THAT HE MIGHT WIN CHRIST....
LOSING ALL TO KNOW CHRIST Philippians 3:1 Precept must be on precept, line on line. The false teachers who dogged Paul's steps insisted on rigid conformity to Judaism, with its rabbinical accretions,...
This is the great chapter of the autobiography of Paul. First, he emphasized the story of his past in a most remarkable way. Then referring to these things as gains (the word in the original is plural...
PAUL GAVE UP ALL FOR CHRIST Because of the above list, Paul had once counted himself a spiritual millionaire. At the time he wrote this letter, he saw himself as bankrupt before he found Christ (Matth...
But what things were (d) gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. (d) Which I considered as gain....
_If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, in being of the Jewish race and of their religion, I more; i.e. I have greater reasons to glory than they have, being circumcised of the sto...
(1) В¶ Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. (2) Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the conci...
There is no epistle in the New Testament which gives so little space to the development of. doctrine as this to the Philippians. Need it be said that it has not the less its own proper office on that...
7._What things were gain to me _He says, that those things were gain to him, for ignorance of Christ is the sole reason why we are puffed up with a vain confidence. Hence, where we see a false estimat...
In Chapter 3 Paul resumes his exhortation; but it was not burdensome to him, and it was safe for them (danger being present and his tender love watchful), to renew his warnings and instructions respec...
BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME,.... As circumcision, and the observance of the ceremonial law, which he thought were necessary to salvation; and his natural and lineal descent from Abraham, which he...
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Ver. 7. _Loss for Christ_] Christ is to be sought and bought at any hand, at any rate. This is to play the wise merchant, Matthew 13:...
_But what things_ Of this nature; _were_ once reputed _gain to me_ Which I valued myself upon, and confided in for acceptance with God, supposing them to constitute a righteousness sufficient to justi...
WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN; those by which he once had hoped to gain eternal life. LOSS; he renounced all dependence on them, sensible that dependence on them, should it continue, would cause the loss of...
The result of Paul's conversion:...
BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THOSE I COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST....
It is far from irksome to the apostle to turn again to speak of "rejoicing in the Lord." Simple and elementary as is his exhortation, he is not wearied in repeating "the same things..... For you it is...
Learning How to Count 1 Peter 3:1-11 1. KEY WORDS 1 Finally, grievous, safe 2 Beware, evil, concision 3 Circumcision, worship, spirit 4 Flesh, trust 5 Israel, Hebrew, Pharisee 6 Zeal, persecut...
“HOWBEIT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THESE HAVE. COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST” “Howbeit what things were gain to me”: “All the things which. once held to be gains” (TCNT). “GAIN”: “Lit., gains. The variou...
1-11 Sincere Christians rejoice in Christ Jesus. The prophet calls the false prophets dumb dogs, Isaiah 56:10; to which the apostle seems to refer. Dogs, for their malice against faithful professors...
Having argued how he might have had as great a plea for confidence of his acceptance with God as any, if it would have held from the recited particulars, he now shows, how advantageous soever they had...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V -he now reckons to be only "loss" to himself;[922]...
Php_3:7 But G235 things G3748 were G2258 (G5713) gain G2771 me G3427 these G5023 counted G2233 (G5766) loss G2209 for...
A WARNING TO BEWARE OF THE JUDAISERS, WHO TAUGHT THAT SALVATION WAS THROUGH THE WORKS OF THE LAW, IS BACKED UP FROM PAUL'S EXPERIENCE IN WHICH HE HAD DISCOVERED THAT ALL SUCH EFFORTS WERE IN VAIN (PHI...
‘Howbeit what things were gains to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.' The things that he has described were the things that he had treasured and relied on. They had been his life. They had mea...
_Preparation to conclude, interrupted by a digression on false teaching,_ 3-16. St. Paul has now touched on all the topics on which he is about to write to the Philippians as their special concern, an...
Philippians 3:7. HOWBEIT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME. In the days of his persecuting zeal, he like the Judaizers had counted all these distinctive marks of the pure and exclusive Jew as so many advant...
WERE GAIN TO ME (εν μο κερδη). "Were gains (plural, see on Philippians 1:21) to me (ethical dative)." Paul had natural pride in his Jewish attainments. He was the star of hope for Gamaliel and the...
Philippians 3:7 The Apostle's Ground of Trust. I. When such general homage is paid to earnestness as in our own time, what wonder if some people should mistake it for religion; and if a man should im...
Philippians 3:7 The Christian Estimate of Gain and Loss. The Christian man keeps an accurate account-book; he reckons up with an intelligent and enlightened judgment his gains and his losses. And mos...
Philippians 3:1. _Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord._ Let this be the end of everything; before you get to the end of it, and when you do get to the end of it, «rejoice in the Lord.» It is in...
The Holy Ghost incited this Epistle by the pen of his servant Paul. May he also write it on our hearts! Philippians 3:1. _Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord._ When you get to «finally,» when...
Philippians 3:1. _Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord._ As much as to say, «If this were the last sentence that I should write to you, I would say, Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.' I...
CONTENTS: Christ, the object of the believer's faith, desire and expectation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Let those reckon themselves unspeakable losers, who by adhering t...
Philippians 3:2. _Beware of dogs,_ judaizing teachers and false apostles, which bite and devour the flock; dogs which bark in ignorance against the person of Christ, and the gospel of God our Saviour....
BUT ALL THOSE THINGS. "I could be very proud of my ancestors and my Jewish background. But now they are just things to be thrown away, because they have no value in Christ!" _Johnson_ says: "Instead o...
_Finally, my brethren _ PRIDELESS PRIDE 1_._ What were the things not irksome and safe? (1) Counsels in some lost Epistles. (2) Messages delivered by word of mouth through his delegates. (3) Ear...
_Though I might also have confidence in the flesh--Observe _ _ I._ Paul’s advantages--Superior to those which men generally put confidence in--respecting his birth and religious training, his rigid...
_What things were gain to me those I counted loss for Christ _ THE CHRISTIAN’S ACCOUNTS The Christian keeps an accurate account book. He reckons up with an enlightened judgment his gains and losses...
PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 3:1 Opponents of the Gospel: Where Does Righteousness Come From? Paul calls on the Philippians to rejoice in the Lord (v. Philippi
PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 3:7 GAIN... LOSS. What formerly went into Paul’s _gain_ column—his power, position, and performance—now goes into the _loss_ column. Compare...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Philippians 3:4. THOUGH I MIGHT ALSO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH.—They will never be able to say he “speaks evil of that which he knows not.” “If there is any profit...
EXPOSITION PHILIPPIANS 3:1 FINALLY, MY BRETHREN, REJOICE IN THE LORD. This word "finally" (τὸ λοιπόν is frequently used by St. Paul to introduce a practical conclusion after the doctrinal portion...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Philippians 3. Again, remember that the background of this epistle, Paul is chained to a Roman soldier in Rome, in prison, writing to the Philippians. The keynote of...
Acts 27:18; Acts 27:19; Acts 27:38; Galatians 2:15; Galatians 2:16;...
What things [α τ ι ν α]. The double relative classifies; things which came under the category of gain. Compare Galatians 4:24; Colossians 2:23. Gain [κ ε ρ δ η]. Lit., gains. So Rev., in margin, and b...
SEVEN PAIRS OF THINGS A Message of Contrasts Philippians 3:4 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is much said in the Bible by way of contrast. Heaven is contrasted with hell; life is contrasted with death; r...
But all these things, which I then accounted gain, which were once my confidence, my glory, and joy, those, ever since I have believed, I have accounted loss, nothing worth in comparison of Christ....
That is, the fore-mentioned privileges, which heretofore he accounted gain, and thought to gain justification and salvation by, now, since his illumination, he counted them all LOSS; he saw he had los...