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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:1-21

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) he declared he counted them loss. The vision of Christ immediately showed him the worthlessness of everything in comparison. He then brought up the story of his life to the time of his writing. It would then be about thirty years after meeting the risen Lord that he counted his gains but loss.... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Philippians 3:4-14

Seven Pairs of Things A Message of Contrasts Philippians 3:4-14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is much said in the Bible by way of contrast. Heaven is contrasted with hell; life is contrasted with death; right is contrasted with wrong; light with darkness, truth with error. Our Scripture circumscribes certain Bible contrasts with a word common to us all the word, "Things." There are the things before, contrasted with the things behind; there are the things which are spiritual, contrasted with the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:13

THE DEAD PAST‘Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.’ Php_3:13 What had the Apostle in mind when he spoke of forgetting the things which are behind? If you read the chapter you will be at no loss to understand his meaning. He is describing his own circumstances as one who had wonderfully changed his place. To a man so loyal and affectionate as his writings prove St. Paul to have been, the breach with old comrades must have been... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:10-21

His Knowing Of Christ Involves Participation With Him In The Power Of His Resurrection, And Equal Participation With Him in His Sufferings, By Himself Recognising That He Has Died With Christ. And His Aim Is To Participate In The Resurrection From The Dead (Philippians 3:10-21 ). In The New Testament the power of Christ’s resurrection is seen as an effective transforming power. It is through that power that in Christ God will, from start to finish, bring about the whole salvation of the whole... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:13-14

‘Brothers, I count not myself yet to have laid hold, but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.’ In contrast with the false teachers Paul does not see himself as having laid hold of the totality of salvation. But what he does see himself as having done, and as continuing to do, having put out of his mind what is in the past, ‘the things... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:10-16

Php_3:10-16 . Aim and Aspiration.— In exchange for the proud Jewish privileges that he has renounced, Paul has a new pursuit. His aim is to know Christ and the power that comes from His resurrection, the energy of the glorified, risen Christ— not the power which raised Him from the dead— together with a sympathetic union with Christ in suffering by his own endurance of suffering like Christ’ s, so that he may hope also for a resurrection— a privilege only for Christ’ s people. Writing towards... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Philippians 3:13

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; he repeats, in somewhat a different manner of expression, what he had written in the former verse, with a friendly compellation, gently and kindly to insinuate a caution against the false teachers’ suggestion about perfection in this state, from the instance of himself, so eminently called to be an apostle of Christ, {1 Corinthians 10:12} who, after all his labours and sufferings for his sake, did reckon he had not yet arrived to the height of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Philippians 3:12-16

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESPhilippians 3:12. Not as though I had already attained.—The word for “attained” may possibly refer to the turning-point in St. Paul’s history, and so the phrase would mean, “not as though by my conversion I did at once attain.” This interpretation, which is Bishop Lightfoot’s, is challenged by Dr. Beet. It seems preferable, on other than grammatical grounds, because the following phrase, if we refer the former to conversion, is an advance of thought. Either were... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:13

Philippians 3:13 I. The past has its uses. Not for nothing did God bestow upon us memory; not for nothing do His servants recollect themselves, look back, call to mind, remember. (1) We want the past for purposes of humiliation. We might almost content ourselves, if we desired to humble the pride of any one, with saying to him, Let memory work; think of that shameful fall which you had yesterday or the day before: that broken resolution, that outbreak of temper, that irreverent worship, that... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:13-14

Philippians 3:13-14 Living in the Future. I. First, we may take this as the advice commended to us in the example here taught us: Live in the future. Our highest condition in this world is not the attainment of perfection, but the recognition of heights above us which are as yet unreached. From generation to generation, for the individual and the species, the condition of our progress is a distance beckoning us, and a feeling that we have not already attained, neither are already perfect. II.... read more

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:1-21

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Philippians 3:4-14

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:13

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:10-21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:13-14

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:10-16

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Philippians 3:13

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Philippians 3:12-16

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:13

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:13-14

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