Philippians 3:4-6

Moffatt(i) 4 Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him. 5 I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law, 6 in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.