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This commentary by respected New Testament scholar Gordon D. Fee is a scholarly yet thoroughly readable study of Paul’s letter to the suffering community of believers in Philippi. Working directly from the Greek text but basing his comments on the New International Version, Fee sets Paul’s letter to the Philippians squarely within the context of first-century “friendship” and “moral exhortation”...

him so that he might “gain Christ and be found in him”—already but not yet—having now the new righteousness effected by Christ. The goal of everything is to know Christ, which in the present means to experience the power of Christ’s resurrection as Paul participates in Christ’s sufferings, thereby being conformed to Christ’s death—marked by the cross—so that he might also thereby attain the resurrection from the dead. Now he qualifies, “not that I already obtained.”20 Since this verb seems to cry
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