6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? …
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)In the former part of this chapter the apostle cautions the Galatians to take heed of the judaizing teachers, who endeavoured to bring them back under the bondage of the law. He had been arguing against them before, and had largely shown how contrary the principles and spirit of those teachers were to the spirit of the gospel; and now this is as it were the general inference or application of all…
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