11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
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For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. …
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-11)As we are to mortify inordinate appetites, so we are to mortify inordinate passions (Col. 3:8): But now you also put off all these, anger wrath, malice ; for these are contrary to the design of the gospel, as well as grosser impurities; and, though they are more spiritual wickedness, have not less malignity in them. The gospel religion introduces a change of the higher as well as the lower powers…
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