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NASB | Galatians 6:13 For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Galatians 6:13 For even the circumcised [Jews] themselves do not [really] keep the Law, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh [that is, in the fact that they convinced you to be circumcised]. |
Bible Question: What was Pauls point in contrasting boasting in the flesh with boasting in the cross? gal 6:13-14 |
Bible Answer: Hi Tan Flipper, I believe that you should look at the contrast between the flesh and the Spirit, the world and the Lord Jesus Christ. We can not boast for all that we are and have are from Him. Even our faith comes from Him. Romans 12:3, "For through the grace given to me I say to every man among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith." The passage goes on and says that we have many members, but we are one body in Christ. Galatians 6:14,15 tells us that Paul is not concerned about the world, that the world has been crucified to him and he to the world. He is not concerned with circumsized or uncircumsized, Gentile or Greek, male or female. All are a new creation. He boasts only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. James 2:1 also speaks about our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. "My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoratism." We are not to look at the world with its gold rings and fine clothes and look down at the poor man. Rich or poor we all are rich in faith and heirs together of the kingdom. Jude 1:17 says, "But you beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 that they were saying to you, "In the last time there shall be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts." 19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith; praying in the Holy Spirit; 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life." From the heart, Ray |
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