7Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
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Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. …
And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. …
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)Here the apostle comes to the body of the epistle; and he begins it with a more general reproof of these churches for their unsteadiness in the faith, which he afterwards, in some following parts of it, enlarges more upon. Here we may observe, I. How much he was concerned at their defection: I marvel , etc. It filled him at once with the greatest surprise and sorrow. Their sin and folly were that…
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