But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
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Gill's Exposition
For in Christ Jesus,.... These words are omitted in the Syriac and Ethiopic versions; See Gill on Gal 5:6, Co1 7:19, they contain a reason why the apostle gloried in a crucified Christ, and looked…
Barnes' Notes
But God forbid - See the note at Rom 3:4. “For me it is not to glory except in the cross of Christ.” The object of Paul here is evidently to place himself in contrast with the judaizing teachers, and…
Adam Clarke
But God forbid that I should glory - Whatever others may do, or whatever they may exult or glory in, God forbid that I should exult, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; in the grand…
The apostle, having at large established the doctrine of the gospel, and endeavoured to persuade these Christians to a behaviour agreeable to it, seems as if he intended here to have put an end to the…
Cambridge Bible
We might have expected that St Paul would have named -the Spirit" or -the new creature" as the object of his boasting, in immediate contrast with -the flesh", the seat of the outward rite, in which…
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