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# As for zeal, I persecuted the church
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Paul says here that he had been very eager to punish people for following Christ. "I was very determined to hurt Christian believers"
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# as for righteousness under the law, I was blameless
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"I obeyed the law completely"
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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. AT: "anything that other Jews praised me for" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# I 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. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) |