Galatians 6:14-15

Galatians 6:14-15

[14] But  God forbid  should glory,  in  the cross  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  by  whom  the world  is crucified  and I  unto the world.  [15] For  neither  circumcision  any thing,  nor  uncircumcision,  but  a new  creature. 

What does Galatians 6:14-15 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Paul boasted only in Christ"s cross, the work of Christ for him. That was all he took pride in. The Cross was a symbol of shame. Because of the Cross the world system had lost its appeal to Paul, and he had lost his appeal to the world. Now circumcision was unimportant. Only being a new creation in Christ mattered (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:17).
"It is difficult after sixteen centuries and more during which the cross has been a sacred symbol, to realize the unspeakable horror and loathing which the very mention or thought of the cross provoked in Paul"s day. The word crux was unmentionable in polite Roman society ...; even when one was being condemned to death by crucifixion the sentence used an archaic formula which served as a sort of euphemism ...
"But Paul, Roman citizen by birth and religious Jew by upbringing, not only dismisses as the merest refuse (skubala, Philippians 3:8) those things in which he had once taken a proper pride but embraces as the most worth-while goal in life the knowledge of the crucified Christ and boasts in his cross-a shocking paradox indeed." [1]