Galatians 6:13

For not even they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to become circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

In Context

12They who are disposed to glory in the flesh, they urge you to become circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted on account of the cross of the Messiah.

14But as for me, let me not glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:3Whatever therefore they tell you to observe, that observe and do. But according to their deeds, practise ye not: for they say, and do not.

Matthew 23:23Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and omit the graver matters of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these ought ye to do, and those not to omit.

Romans 2:17But if thou, who art called a Jew, and reposest thyself on the law, and gloriest in God,

1 Corinthians 3:21Wherefore, let no one glory in men: for all things are yours;

2 Corinthians 11:18Because many glory after the flesh, I also will glory.

2 Peter 2:19And they promise them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for, by whatever thing a man is vanquished, to that is he enslaved.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 6:12-18

Character of Seducing Teachers; Efficacy of the Cross of Christ; Apostolical Benediction. ( a. d. 56.) 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. 12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. 13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in… Read the whole commentary →

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