A fair show in the flesh; in outward observances, and thus to be in good repute with men of fleshly minds.

Lest they should suffer; persecution from the Jews, if they neglected circumcision and preached the doctrines of the cross. False teachers refrain from proclaiming the truth as it is in Jesus, not only because they dislike it, but to avoid the opposition to which it would expose them, and to become popular with the wicked.

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