Charles Spurgeon Commentary Philippians 3:6

"as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless." — Philippians 3:6 (ASV)

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church!

He was most zealous in the cause that he thought right. Bitterly, cruelly, even to the death, did he persecute the believers in Jesus.

Touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless (Philippians 3:6).

Paul had been kept from the vices into which many fell. In his young days, he had been pure; and all his days, he had been upright and sincere. As far as he knew, to the best of his light, he had observed the law of God. In another place, he calls himself the chief of sinners; and so he was, because he persecuted the Church of God; but, in another sense, I may say of him that there is no man who stood so good a chance of being justified by works as Paul did, if there could have been any justification in that way.