<p>3:1 <i>Finally my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. For me to repeat the same things to you as I did before is not tedious, indeed it only confirms their certainty</i>- &quot;Finally&quot; sounds as if the letter is being concluded, but Paul is only half way through the letter as we now have it. He seems to get carried away now in the Spirit in warning against false teachers and Judaism. Paul says he is repeating what he has said before, and the fact he is doing so prompted by the Spirit inspiring him &quot;only confirms&quot; the reality of the problem. He may have written these things before in an unrecorded letter, or perhaps he is reminding them of the warnings he gave them whilst present with them. He feels he has to make these warnings against legalism because he wants them to &quot;rejoice in the Lord&quot;, and legalism takes away the joy of salvation by grace on account of the Lord's work.</p>