13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
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For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, …
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)The apostle, having at large established the doctrine of the gospel, and endeavoured to persuade these Christians to a behaviour agreeable to it, seems as if he intended here to have put an end to the epistle, especially when he had acquainted them that, as a particular mark of his respect for them, he had written this large letter with his own hand, and had not made use of another as his amanuens…
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