“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.”
— WEB
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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.”
— WEB
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”
— KJV
“But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”
— ASV
Translate, "But as for me (in opposition to those gloriers 'in your flesh,' Gal 6:13), God forbid that I," &c. in the cross--the atoning death on the cross. Compare Phi 3:3, Phi 3:7-8, as a specimen of his glorying. The "cross," the great object of shame to them, and to all carnal men, is the great object of glorying to me. For by it, the worst of deaths, Christ has destroyed all kinds of death [AUGUSTINE, Tract 36, on John, sec. 4]. We are to testify the power of Christ's death working in us, after the manner of crucifixion (Gal 5:24; Rom 6:5-6). our--He reminds the Galatians by this pronoun, that they had a share in the "Lord Jesus Christ" (the full name is used for greater solemnity), and therefore ought to glory in Christ's cross, as he did. the world--inseparably allied to the "flesh" (Gal 6:13). Legal and fleshly ordinances are merely outward, and "elements of the world" (Gal 4:3). is--rather, as Greek, "has been crucified to me" (Gal 2:20). He used "crucified" for dead (Col 2:20, "dead with Christ"), to imply his oneness with Christ crucified (Phi 3:10): "the fellowship of His sufferings being made conformable unto His death."
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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