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A comparison of the Epistle to the Philippians with the letters that Paul had written before it might seem to indicate that the church at Philippi had no censurable weaknesses at all. Such a thought, of course, cannot be true because just as "there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins" (Eccl. 7: 20 ESV) so it is with churches, and even though the church at Philippi is not...

word and deed with regard to God’s law and also to their own nature as originally created. ‘God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes’ for other values and aims in living (Eccles. 7:29). ‘Twisted’ renders a term which means to pervert or distort what is true and good with reference to themselves and to others. The New Testament example of what is in view here is Elymas the sorcerer (Acts 13:10). The picture which is painted by these words is one in which truth is not merely rejected,
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