Philippians

In this epistle St. Paul praises and admonishes the Philippians that they abide and carry on in the true faith and increase in love. He warns them against false teachers. He rejects the human righteousness not based on faith in Christ, which is taught and held by the false apostles. Paul offers himself as an example: he had lived gloriously in this kind of righteousness, and yet now holds it to be nothing, for the sake of the righteousness of Christ. Human righteousness makes the belly its god, and makes men enemies of the cross of Christ. Paul exhorts them to peace and good outward conduct toward each other.