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# make a good impression
"cause others to think well of them" or "cause others to think that they are good people"
# in the flesh
"with visible evidence" or "by their own efforts"
# to compel
"to force" or "to strongly influence"
# only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ
"so that the Jews will not persecute them for claiming that the cross of Christ alone is what saves people"
# the cross of Christ
These words are a metonym for faith that Christ died on the cross so God would forgive his people's sins. Alternate translation: "believing that God forgives his people's sins because Jesus died on the cross" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])