To boast in the cross of Christ is to put all your confidence for life in God’s presence and the forgiveness of sin in the work of Jesus, rather than your own obedience/actions (for example, circumcision). / The cross represents the atoning death of Jesus that opens the way for justification apart from works of the law.[2] Through participation in Christ’s death, Paul has been set free from the law as the means of justification, and from the old life of which the law was the principle.[3]
[1] Schreiner, 2010: p 379.
[2] Fung, 1988: p 306.
[3] Fung, 1988: p 307.
To boast in the cross of Christ is to put all your confidence for life in God’s presence and the forgiveness of sin in the work of Jesus, rather than your own obedience/actions (for example, circumcision). 1 The cross represents the atoning death of Jesus that opens the way for justification apart from works of the law. 2 Through participation in Christ’s death, Paul has been set free from the law as the means of justification, and from the old life of which the law was the principle. 3
14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.