 | Robert Marshall Offord - Christian life - 1889 - 412 pages
...the Bible forever a sealed book. " For we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh" (Phil. iii. 3). God through himself we then shall know, If thou within us shine, And sound, with all thy saints below,... | |
 | Edwin Octavius Tregelles - Missionaries - 1892 - 486 pages
...Missionary Society at eleven o'clock ; about 400 present. J. Jesup spoke of the happy condition of those who worship God in the spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Several of the planters came to the house after meeting, giving us an opportunity to... | |
 | Tract Association of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Society of Friends - 1893 - 636 pages
...devotional satisfac* Oalat. iii. 3. tion in the round of external forms and ordinances. Whereas, those that worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.* And why ? Because " it is the Spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing,... | |
 | James Denney - Bible - 1894 - 408 pages
...taught his Gentile converts to say — "we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh " (Phil. iii. 3). Here he does not linger long over what is merely external. It is a deeper question that he asks in... | |
 | Thomas Bradbury - Sermons, English - 1902 - 220 pages
...are fully entitled to say with Paul, " We are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh " (Phil. iii. 3). The Lord Jesus Christ is spiritually King of all those who are Jews inwardly, and in His own time He... | |
 | William Huntington - Bible - 1908 - 528 pages
...burden that is light, Matt. xi. 2°, 30. Those souls that are under this are " the circumcision that worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and' have no confidence in .the flesh." God writes this law on our hearts, and in our minds does lie put it, Jer. xxxi. 33.... | |
 | Arno Clemens Gaebelein - Bible - 1917 - 316 pages
...holy presence as a true worshipper. "For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." (Phil. iii-3). This priesthood of which Peter speaks (1 Pet. ii:5) is mentioned here also. By Him therefore... | |
 | Andrew Joseph Baxter - 1878 - 398 pages
...worshippers. Israelites indeed, who compose the true church, are they who " worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh," Phil. iii. 3. Such characters are convinced by the teaching of God the Holy Spirit that Jehovah is the true God,... | |
 | Frederick Brotherton Meyer - 1890 - 236 pages
...constitute us the true circumcision : " For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh" (Phil. iii. 3). It is only in proportion as we know the spiritual meaning of circumcision that we can enter into the... | |
 | Miles J. Stanford - Religion - 1983 - 340 pages
...new. "For we are the circumcision [separated from the flesh], which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh" (Phil. 3:3). This should be an encouragement: Our growing hatred of the works of the flesh ultimately causes... | |
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We are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, 
