I do not claim. Evidently the false teachers claimed they were righteous because they obeyed The Law, and that they had already been raised from death. Paul makes no such claim!!! The prize still is in the future for him (compare Hebrews 11:40). Perfect. This word means the perfection that comes with the end of time and the coming of Eternity. The false teachers probably claimed to be like the angels, spiritually perfect, and they may have said this excused them from all moral laws! In contrast, Paul says; I keep going on. Paul keeps on reaching out through faith, trying to win the prize of life for which Christ has already won him (at Paul's conversion).

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