Galatians 6:13
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
KJV
οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ περιτεμνόμενοι αὐτοὶ νόμον φυλάσσουσιν, ἀλλὰ θέλουσιν ὑμᾶς περιτέμνεσθαι ἵνα ἐν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ σαρκὶ καυχήσωνται.
Greek NT
Neque enim qui circumciduntur, legem custodiunt : sed volunt vos circumcidi, ut in carne vestra glorientur.
Vulgate
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.
ASV
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- περιτεμνόμενοι — SBLGNT
- περιτεμνόμενοι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- περιτετμημένοι — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:31 — That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
- 1Cor 5:6 — Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- 2Cor 10:17 — But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
- 2Cor 11:18 — Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
- 2Pet 2:19 — While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
- Acts 7:53 — Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
- Acts 15:1 — And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
- John 7:19 — Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
- Luke 5:38 — But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
- Luke 11:46 — And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
- Matt 23:3 — All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
- Matt 23:4 — For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
- Matt 23:15 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
- Phil 3:3 — For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
- Phil 3:3 — For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
- Phil 3:19 — Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
- Rom 2:17 — Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
- Rom 4:2 — For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.