1; He warns them to beware of the false teachers of the
circumcision;
4; shewing that himself has greater cause than they to trust in
the righteousness of the law;
7; which notwithstanding he counts as dung and loss, to gain
Christ and his righteousness;
12; therein acknowledging his own imperfection.
15; He exhorts them to be thus minded;
17; and to imitate him,
18; and to decline the ways of carnal Christians.
* Finally.
# 4:8; 2Co 13:11; Eph 6:10; 1Th 4:1; *Gr:|
# 1Pe 3:8|
* rejoice.
# 3; 4:4; De 12:18; 16:11; 1Sa 2:1; 1Ch 15:28; 16:10,31-33; 29:22|
# 2Ch 30:26,27; Ne 8:10; Job 22:26; Ps 5:11; 32:11; 33:1; 37:4; 42:4|
# Ps 97:1; 100:1,2; 149:2; Isa 12:2,3; 41:16; 61:10; 65:14; 66:11,12|
# Joe 2:23; Hab 3:17,18; Zep 3:14,17; Zec 10:7; Mt 5:12; Lu 1:47|
# Ro 5:2,3,11; 1Th 5:16; Jas 1:2; 1Pe 1:6-8; 4:13|
* To write.
# 2:17,18; 2Pe 1:12-15; 3:1|
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