Philippians 3:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For we are the circumcision The true spiritual seed of Abraham; who have the things signified by that sign, and perform that which circumcision was designed to engage men to. We are the only people now in covenant with God, who worship God in the Spirit Not barely in the letter, or by a mere external service, in attending outward ordinances, but with the spiritual worship of reverence and fear, humility and self-abasement, adoration and praise, confidence and hope, gratitude and love, subjection and obedience; of true repentance, living faith, and genuine holiness; feeling within ourselves, and manifesting to others, those dispositions and actions which are suited to the divine perfections, and to the relations in which he is pleased to stand to us; and all this through the influence of his Spirit, which can only implant these dispositions within us, and enable us to conduct ourselves accordingly. See this spiritual worship further explained in the note on John 4:23-24; and rejoice Or, glory, rather, as καυχωμενοι signifies; in Christ Je sus As the procuring cause of all our blessings, and the source of all our consolations; and have no confidence in the flesh In any outward advantage or prerogative, or in any performance of our own, past, present, or to come, for acceptance with God, or justification before him.