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The Only Source of Glory
Paul emphatically rejects all other reasons for boasting—like heritage, religious performance, or status—which his opponents valued. Commentators stress that for Paul, the cross of Christ is the exclusive source of a Christian's identity, hope, and joy. What the world saw as shameful, the believer sees as the ultimate display of God's love, power, and wisdom, containing all that is needed for salvation.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 6:14
18th Century
Theologian
But God forbid. ().
"For me it is not to glory, except in the cross of Christ." The object of Paul here is evidently to pl…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 6:14
Far be it from me (εμο μη γενοιτο). Second aorist middle optative of γινομα in a negative (μη) wish about the future with dative c…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 6:14
19th Century
Bishop
God forbid that I should glory.—There is a stress upon the pronoun “I,” which, in the Greek, stands first, in emp…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 6:14
19th Century
Preacher
"I have ceased to care," says Paul, "about glorying in men, and making other people glory in my converts. The world is dead to me, and I to it."
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 6:14
Over against all such improper and sinful boasting, Paul sets an entirely different boasting of his own—a boasting “in the cross of our Lord Jesus …
John Calvin
On Galatians 6:14
16th Century
Theologian
But God forbid that I should glory (Galatians 6:14). The designs of the false apostles are here contrasted with his own sincer…
John Gill
On Galatians 6:14
17th Century
Pastor
But God forbid that I should glory
The apostle, on the contrary, expresses his aversion to glorying in anything these men did;…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 6:12–15
17th Century
Minister
Proud, vain, and carnal hearts are content with just enough religion to help them maintain a respectable appearance. But the apostle professes his …