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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:8

Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss - Not only those things which he had just specified, and which he had himself possessed, he says he would be willing to renounce in order to obtain an interest in the Saviour, but everything which could be imagined. Were all the wealth and honor which could be conceived of his, he would be willing to renounce them in order that he might obtain the knowledge of the Redeemer. He would be a gainer who should sacrifice everything in order to win... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:9

And be found in him - That is, united to him by a living faith. The idea is, that when the investigations of the great day should take place in regard to the ground of salvation, it might be found that he was united to the Redeemer and depended solely on his merits for salvation; compare the notes at John 6:56.Not having mine own righteousness - That is, not relying on that for salvation. This was now the great aim of Paul, that it might be found at last that he was not trusting to his own... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Philippians 3:8-11

Philippians 3:8-11. Yea doubtless Not only when I was first converted, but I still account both these and all things else, how valuable soever, to be but loss. Having said, in the preceding verse, that he counted his privileges as a Jew, and his righteousness by the law, to be loss, or things to be thrown away, he here adds, that he viewed in the same light all the things which men value themselves upon, and on which they build their hope of salvation: such as their natural and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:1-16

3:1-21 THE WAY TO PERFECTIONPaul’s testimony (3:1-16)At this point Paul repeats warnings that he gave the Philippian church some time earlier concerning Judaisers. He calls the Judaisers ‘dogs’ because they like to ‘cut the flesh’ of people; that is, they insist that they must circumcise Gentiles before those Gentiles can be saved. The true people of God, whom Paul calls the ‘true circumcision’, are not those who have carried out a ceremony to put a mark in their bodies, but those who have... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Philippians 3:8

excellency = excelling. Greek. huperecho. See Philippians 2:3 . knowledge. App-132 . Lord. App-98 . suffered , &c. Greek. zemioo . See 1 Corinthians 3:15 . be dung = to be dung. Greek. skubalon. Only here. that = in order that. Greek. hina. win = gain. kerdaino . Occurs sixteen times, translated gain except here, and 1 Peter 3:1 . First occurance: Matthew 16:26 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Philippians 3:9

not. App-105 . mine own , &c. = any . . . of mine. through . App-104 .Philippians 3:1 . the faith of Christ = Christ's faith. See Hebrews 12:2 . faith . App-150 . by. App-104 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Philippians 3:8

... That I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. (Philippians 3:8b-9)We agree with Monroe who flatly declared that "here is Paul's most concise statement of justification by faith";[18] and there is, therefore, all the more reason why people should take heed to the meaning of it. The undeniable fact is that the English Revised Version... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Philippians 3:8

Philippians 3:8. I count all things but loss— I have thrown away all things:—"Have willingly parted with all my advantages and expectations from the law; that I might gain or secure Christ." It is not by any means improbable, that a sentence of excommunication might have been pronounced against St. Paul, or at least that his goods might have been confiscated; as we know other believing Hebrews, though probably no one of them so obnoxious to their brethren as himself, were actually treated. (See... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Philippians 3:9

Philippians 3:9. And be found in him,— "Though not only reputation and power, ease and plenty, but even life itself, should be sacrificed to this view, I am happy enough if I may but be found in him, vitally united to him by a true faith and love, and so taken into his favour and under his protection." read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Philippians 3:8

8. Yea doubtless—The oldest manuscripts omit "doubtless" (Greek, "ge"): translate, "nay more." Not only "have I counted" those things just mentioned "loss for Christ's sake, but, moreover, I even DO count ALL things but loss," c. for the excellency—Greek, "On account of the surpassing excellency (the supereminence above them all) of the knowledge of Christ Jesus." my Lord—believing and loving appropriation of Him (Psalms 63:1 John 20:28). for whom—"on account of whom." I have suffered the... read more