Philippians 3:4-9 ▼

4 which I might do more justly than any other man can pretend to:

5 being circumcised the eighth day, of the family of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew by descent, by sect a Pharisee.

6 if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach;

7 these advantages I renounce for Christ,

8 nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,

9 and be his true disciple, not professing that justification, which is derived from the law, but that which is from the gospel,