Galatians 6:13
11 See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!
12 Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
- KJV
- For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
- WEB
- For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.
- ASV
- For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
- DARBY
- For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
- BLB
- For not even those being circumcised keep the law themselves, but they want you⁺ to be circumcised that they may boast in your⁺ flesh.
- ÅB
- For ikke engang de som lar seg omskjære, holder selv loven; men de vil at dere skal la dere omskjære, for at de kan rose seg av deres kjød.
- OTB
- For selv de som er omskåret, holder ikke loven selv, men de vil at dere skal bli omskåret, så de kan rose seg av deres kjød.
- B1930
- For ikke engang de som lar sig omskjære, holder selv loven; men de vil at I skal la eder omskjære, forat de kan rose sig av eders kjød.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 3:3
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
Read in context1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
Read in contextRomans 2:17–25
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
Read in context2 Peter 2:19
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
Read in contextMatthew 23:3
So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:18
Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
Read in contextMatthew 23:15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:21
Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
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