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As he sits in a Roman prison, the Apostle Paul does not focus on the difficulties of his own situation when he writes to the Philippians. Rather, he is most interested in encouraging the Philippian church that he and his ministry team had founded on his second missionary journey. He overflows with joy as he urges his readers to maintain unity by looking to role models—himself, their brother...

In verses 4–6 Paul recounts all the “gains” he had attained in the past, going on to show the danger (in the present) of relying on those so-called achievements as grounds for having confidence in the flesh. Now he addresses an accompanying danger: We might assume that we have lived our lives so well to this point that we have reached moral and legal perfection,
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