We might ask: How could a sincere man like Saul of Tarsus be so wrong ?”  The answer is: He was using the wrong measuring stick !  

Like many others, he was looking at the outside and not the inside.  He was comparing himself with standards set by men, not by God. 

As far as obeying outwardly the demands of the Law, Paul was a success, but he did not stop to consider the INWARD sins he was commiting. Jesus makes it clear that there are sinful ATTITUDES and APPETITES as well as sinful ACTIONS.  Mattew 5:21-48.    

 When he looked at himself or looked at others, Saul of Tarsus considered himself to be righteous.   BUT one day he saw himself as compared with Jesus Christ !  It was then that he changed his Evaluations and Values, and abandoned his old concepts for the Rightteousness of Jesus Christ  

“If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put  confidence in the flesh, I have more … But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.”. Phil. 3:4, 7 

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