‘AS MANY AS DESIRE TO MAKE A FAIR SHOW IN THE FLESH, THEY COMPEL YOU TO BE CIRCUMCISED, ONLY THAT THEY MAY NOT BE PERSECUTED FOR THE CROSS OF CHRIST.

Let them now reconsider the first fact. That the Judaisers are not honest. There real aim is to avoid the persecution that they would suffer if they ‘preached the cross' (1 Corinthians 1:17). Thus they take the easy way out and insist on circumcision for all, turning everyone into Jews and making them submit to the Jew's religion, counting everyone who is circumcised as a victory, and making a fair show. But note that it is ‘in the flesh', (as is often ‘counting souls').

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