Galatians 6:13 “For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want…”

Galatians 6:13

For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

Bible in Basic English

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

.mt-body { max-height: none !important; -webkit-mask-image: none !important; mask-image: none !important; } .mt-bar { display: none !important; } .o-trans::after { display: block !important; }

Cross references

“keep”

2 Peter 2:19 Matthew 23:3 Matthew 23:15 Matthew 23:23 Romans 3:9–19 Romans 2:17–24

2 Peter 2:19 · BSB

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

Matthew 23:3 · BSB

So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

Matthew 23:15 · BSB

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.

Matthew 23:23 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latte…

Romans 3:9–19 · BSB

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

Romans 2:17–24 · BSB

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

“that they may”

1 Corinthians 5:6 2 Corinthians 11:18 1 Corinthians 3:21

1 Corinthians 5:6 · BSB

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

2 Corinthians 11:18 · BSB

Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.

1 Corinthians 3:21 · BSB

Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

Also

Philippians 3:3

Philippians 3:3 · BSB

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—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Those 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.

14But 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.

Read Galatians 6