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But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
"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."
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 …
16th Century
Protestant
But God forbid that I should glory (Galatians 6:14). The designs of the false apostles are here contrasted with his own sincer…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But God forbid that I should glory The apostle, on the contrary, expresses his aversion to glorying in anything these men did;…
Proud, vain, and carnal hearts are content with just enough religion to help them maintain a respectable appearance. But the apostle professes his …
13th Century
Catholic
After unmasking the sinister intention of the seducers, the Apostle here indicates his own intention.
