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# whatever things were a profit for me
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Paul is referring here to the praise he received for being an eager Pharisee. He speaks of this praise as if he had viewed it in the past as a businessman's profit. Alternate translation: "anything that other Jews praised me for"
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# profit ... loss
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If many people in your culture do not understand formal business terms, you could translate these terms as "things that made my life better" and "things that made my life worse".
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# I have considered them as loss
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Paul speaks of that praise as if he were now viewing it as a business loss instead of a profit. In other words, Paul says that all his religious acts of righteousness are worthless before Christ.
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