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They only want you to be circumcised so they can boast about it and claim you as their disciples. <a href="/esv/galatians/6.htm">English Standard Version</a> For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/bsb/galatians/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/blb/galatians/6.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For not even those being circumcised keep the Law themselves, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/kjv/galatians/6.htm">King James Bible</a> For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. <a href="/nkjv/galatians/6.htm">New King James Version</a> For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/nasb_/galatians/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/nasb/galatians/6.htm">NASB 1995</a> For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/nasb77/galatians/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/lsb/galatians/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/amp/galatians/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For even the circumcised [Jews] themselves do not [really] keep the Law, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh [that is, in the fact that they convinced you to be circumcised]. <a href="/csb/galatians/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For even the circumcised don’t keep the law themselves, and yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh. <a href="/hcsb/galatians/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For even the circumcised don&#8217t keep the law themselves; however, they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh. <a href="/asv/galatians/6.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/galatians/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> They are circumcised, but they don't obey the Law of Moses. All they want is to brag about having you circumcised. <a href="/erv/galatians/6.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/galatians/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> It's clear that not even those who had themselves circumcised did this to follow Jewish laws. Yet, they want you to be circumcised so that they can brag about what was done to your body. <a href="/gnt/galatians/6.htm">Good News Translation</a> Even those who practice circumcision do not obey the Law; they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast that you submitted to this physical ceremony. <a href="/isv/galatians/6.htm">International Standard Version</a> Why, not even those who are circumcised obey the Law! They simply want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your external appearance. <a href="/msb/galatians/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/net/galatians/6.htm">NET Bible</a> For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh. <a href="/nheb/galatians/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For even they who receive circumcision do not keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/wbt/galatians/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. <a href="/wey/galatians/6.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies. <a href="/web/galatians/6.htm">World English Bible</a> 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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/galatians/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> for neither do those circumcised keep the Law themselves, but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. <a href="/blb/galatians/6.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For not even those being circumcised keep the Law themselves, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/ylt/galatians/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory. <a href="/slt/galatians/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For neither they being circumcised themselves observe the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they might boast in your flesh.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/galatians/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> 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. <a href="/cpdv/galatians/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And yet, neither do they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law. Instead, they want you to be circumcised, so that they may glory in your flesh. <a href="/nabre/galatians/6.htm">New American Bible</a> Not even those having themselves circumcised observe the law themselves; they only want you to be circumcised so that they may boast of your flesh. <a href="/nrsvce/galatians/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/galatians/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For not even they who are circumcised obey the law; but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast over your flesh. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/galatians/6.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> Not even those who are circumcised keep The Written Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may take pride in your flesh.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/galatians/6.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> For not even do those very men, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. <a href="/godbey/galatians/6.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> For neither do those who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, in order that they may glory in your flesh. <a href="/haweis/galatians/6.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> For even they who are themselves circumcised do not keep the law, but desire you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. <a href="/mace/galatians/6.htm">Mace New Testament</a> for even they who are circumcised, do not themselves observe the law in other respects; but they dedesire to have you circumcised, that they may have matter of glorying upon that account. <a href="/wey/galatians/6.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies. <a href="/worrell/galatians/6.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> For neither do those themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. <a href="/worsley/galatians/6.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> For they, who are circumcised, do not themselves keep the law: but they would have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. <a href="/parallel/galatians/6-13.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jv8Ri4CeT34?start=1289" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/galatians/6.htm">Paul's Final Warning</a> …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. 13<a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: hoi (Art-NMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/4059.htm" title="4059: peritemnomenoi (V-PPM/P-NMP) -- To cut around, circumcise. From peri and the base of tomoteros; to cut around, i.e. to circumcise.">circumcised</a> <a href="/greek/3761.htm" title="3761: oude (Adv) -- Neither, nor, not even, and not. From ou and de; not however, i.e. Neither, nor, not even.">do not even</a> <a href="/greek/5442.htm" title="5442: phylassousin (V-PIA-3P) -- Probably from phule through the idea of isolation; to watch, i.e. Be on guard; by implication, to preserve, obey, avoid.">keep</a> <a href="/greek/3551.htm" title="3551: nomon (N-AMS) -- From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.">the law</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autoi (PPro-NM3P) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">themselves,</a> <a href="/greek/235.htm" title="235: alla (Conj) -- But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.">yet</a> <a href="/greek/2309.htm" title="2309: thelousin (V-PIA-3P) -- To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design. ">they want</a> <a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymas (PPro-A2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">you</a> <a href="/greek/4059.htm" title="4059: peritemnesthai (V-PNM/P) -- To cut around, circumcise. From peri and the base of tomoteros; to cut around, i.e. to circumcise.">to be circumcised</a> <a href="/greek/2443.htm" title="2443: hina (Conj) -- In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.">that</a> <a href="/greek/2744.htm" title="2744: kauchēsōntai (V-ASM-3P) -- To boast; I glory (exult) proudly. From some base akin to that of aucheo and euchomai; to vaunt.">they may boast</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/5212.htm" title="5212: hymetera (PPro-DF2P) -- Your, yours. From humeis; yours, i.e. Pertaining to you.">your</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tē (Art-DFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/4561.htm" title="4561: sarki (N-DFS) -- Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred. ">flesh.</a> 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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/romans/2-25.htm">Romans 2:25-29</a> Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. / If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? / The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker. ... <a href="/philippians/3-2.htm">Philippians 3:2-3</a> Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! / 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— <a href="/acts/15-1.htm">Acts 15:1-5</a> Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” / And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. / Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers. ... <a href="/colossians/2-11.htm">Colossians 2:11-13</a> In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. / And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead. / When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses, <a href="/romans/3-20.htm">Romans 3:20-22</a> Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin. / But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. / And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, <a href="/romans/4-9.htm">Romans 4:9-12</a> Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. / In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before. / And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. ... <a href="/1_corinthians/7-18.htm">1 Corinthians 7:18-19</a> Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised. / Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts. <a href="/romans/6-14.htm">Romans 6:14-15</a> For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. / What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not! <a href="/2_corinthians/11-13.htm">2 Corinthians 11:13-15</a> For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. / And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. / It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions. <a href="/matthew/23-1.htm">Matthew 23:1-5</a> Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: / “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. / So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. ... <a href="/john/7-22.htm">John 7:22-23</a> But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.) / If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath? <a href="/romans/9-30.htm">Romans 9:30-32</a> What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; / but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. / Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, <a href="/romans/10-2.htm">Romans 10:2-4</a> For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge. / Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. / For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes. <a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm">Jeremiah 9:25-26</a> “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh— / Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.” <a href="/ezekiel/44-7.htm">Ezekiel 44:7-9</a> In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant. / And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’ / This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.keep.<a href="/matthew/23-3.htm">Matthew 23:3,15,23</a> All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not… <a href="/romans/2-17.htm">Romans 2:17-24</a> Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, … <a href="/romans/3-9.htm">Romans 3:9-19</a> What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; … that they may.<a href="/1_corinthians/3-21.htm">1 Corinthians 3:21</a> Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;<a href="/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6</a> Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?<a href="/2_corinthians/11-18.htm">2 Corinthians 11:18</a> Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/galatians/6-4.htm">Boast</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-5.htm">Bodies</a> <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Circumcised</a> <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Circumcision</a> <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/galatians/6-4.htm">Glory</a> <a href="/galatians/6-2.htm">Law</a> <a href="/galatians/5-3.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/galatians/6-2.htm">Obey</a> <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Order</a> <a href="/galatians/3-4.htm">Really</a> <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Receive</a> <a href="/galatians/5-12.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Want</a> <a href="/galatians/5-12.htm">Wish</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/galatians/6-14.htm">Boast</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-28.htm">Bodies</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-11.htm">Circumcised</a> <a href="/galatians/6-15.htm">Circumcision</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-5.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/galatians/6-14.htm">Glory</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-15.htm">Law</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-8.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/ephesians/6-1.htm">Obey</a> <a href="/galatians/6-15.htm">Order</a> <a href="/philippians/1-12.htm">Really</a> <a href="/ephesians/6-8.htm">Receive</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-11.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/philippians/1-12.htm">Want</a> <a href="/philippians/1-12.htm">Wish</a><div class="vheading2">Galatians 6</div>1. <a href="/galatians/6-1.htm">He moves them to deal mildly with a brother who has slipped,</a> 2. <a href="/galatians/6-2.htm">and to bear one another's burden;</a> 6. <a href="/galatians/6-6.htm">to be generous to their teachers,</a> 9. <a href="/galatians/6-9.htm">and not weary of well-doing.</a> 12. <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">He shows what they intend that preach circumcision.</a> 14. <a href="/galatians/6-14.htm">He glories in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/galatians/6.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/galatians/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/galatians/6.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves This phrase highlights the hypocrisy of those advocating for circumcision as a requirement for salvation. In the context of Galatians, Paul addresses the Judaizers, who insisted that Gentile converts must adhere to Jewish law, including circumcision. Historically, the Jewish law, or Torah, was given to the Israelites as a covenant with God, but it was impossible to keep perfectly. Paul points out that even those who are circumcised, symbolizing their commitment to the law, fail to uphold it entirely. This echoes Jesus' criticism of the Pharisees in <a href="/matthew/23-3.htm">Matthew 23:3</a>, where He condemns them for not practicing what they preach. The inability to keep the law underscores the need for grace and faith in Christ, as Paul argues throughout Galatians.yet they want you to be circumcised The Judaizers' insistence on circumcision for Gentile believers was not merely a cultural or traditional preference but a theological imposition. Circumcision was a sign of the Abrahamic covenant (<a href="/genesis/17-10.htm">Genesis 17:10-14</a>), but in the New Covenant, Paul teaches that faith in Christ, not adherence to the law, is what justifies a person (<a href="/galatians/2-16.htm">Galatians 2:16</a>). The pressure to conform to this ritual reflects a broader struggle in the early church between Jewish and Gentile believers, as seen in <a href="/acts/15.htm">Acts 15</a> during the Jerusalem Council. This insistence on circumcision was a way to maintain control and assert superiority, rather than a genuine concern for spiritual well-being.that they may boast in your flesh The phrase "boast in your flesh" indicates a superficial and prideful motivation behind the Judaizers' demands. Their focus was on outward appearances and human achievements rather than inward transformation and spiritual truth. This boasting is contrasted with Paul's teaching in <a href="/galatians/6-14.htm">Galatians 6:14</a>, where he declares that his only boast is in the cross of Christ. The emphasis on "flesh" also connects to Paul's broader theme in Galatians of contrasting the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit (<a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-23</a>). The Judaizers' desire to boast in the flesh of others reveals their misunderstanding of the gospel, which calls for a new creation in Christ (<a href="/galatians/6-15.htm">Galatians 6:15</a>), not adherence to external rituals.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a> The author of the letter to the Galatians, addressing issues of legalism and the true essence of the Gospel. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_galatian_churches.htm">The Galatian Churches</a> The recipients of the letter, who were being influenced by Judaizers to adopt Jewish customs, including circumcision, as necessary for salvation. 3. <a href="/topical/j/judaizers.htm">Judaizers</a> A group within the early church advocating for the necessity of following Jewish law, including circumcision, for Gentile converts. 4. <a href="/topical/c/circumcision.htm">Circumcision</a> A physical act and Jewish custom that was being wrongly emphasized as necessary for salvation by the Judaizers. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_cross_of_christ.htm">The Cross of Christ</a> Central to Paul's message, representing the sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice for salvation, apart from the law.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_legalism.htm">The Danger of Legalism</a> Legalism can distort the Gospel by adding human requirements to God's grace. Believers must guard against any teaching that suggests salvation is earned by works. <a href="/topical/t/the_true_mark_of_faith.htm">The True Mark of Faith</a> True faith is marked by a transformed heart and life, not merely external rituals. Believers should focus on spiritual growth and maturity in Christ. <a href="/topical/b/boasting_in_the_cross.htm">Boasting in the Cross</a> Our only boast should be in the cross of Christ, which is the source of our salvation and identity. This perspective keeps us humble and reliant on God's grace. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_law.htm">The Role of the Law</a> The law serves to point us to our need for Christ, not as a means of salvation. Understanding its purpose helps us appreciate the fullness of grace. <a href="/topical/c/community_and_accountability.htm">Community and Accountability</a> Believers are called to support and hold each other accountable in living out the Gospel, fostering a community centered on truth and love.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_galatians_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Galatians 6</a> <a href="/q/what_is_the_bible's_view_on_law.htm">What is the Bible's stance on Christians and the law?</a> <a href="/q/what_defines_church_leadership.htm">What is the meaning of Galatians 6:2?</a> <a href="/q/why_do_christians_suffer.htm">What is the meaning of Galatians 6:7?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_acts_24_10-15_align_with_paul's_conflicts.htm">In Acts 24:10-15, Paul insists he adheres to Jewish tradition while also preaching resurrection; how does this align with his earlier conflicts over the Law?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/galatians/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(13) Their insincerity is shown by the fact that they are not really careful to observe the Law. What they do is only to serve as a blind, that they may be able to point to your mutilated flesh as the visible sign of their success in gaining proselytes.They themselves who are circumcised.--The expression in the Greek includes, not only those who were circumcised themselves, but also those who were for circumcising others.Glory in your flesh.--Make a boast of getting this rite performed upon your bodies.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/galatians/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 13. - For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the Law (οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ περιτεμνόμενοι αὐτοὶ νόμον φυλάσσουσιν); for neither do they who are being circumcised themselves keep the Law; or, for not even. they who are being circumcised, themselves keep the Law. It is doubtful whether the οὐδὲ accentuates the main idea of the clause (see note on Galatians 1:12), or only the single term, "they who are being circumcised," as in <a href="/john/7-5.htm">John 7:5</a> it accentuates "his brethren." "For;" pointing back to the words," only that," "for no other reason than that," of the previous verse. The apostle means, it is from no zeal for the Law itself that they do what they do, for they are at no pains to keep the Law; but only with the object of currying favour with the Jews. The present participle περιτευνόμενοι is the reading more generally accepted, though the perfect περιτετμημένοι has a competing amount of documentary authentication. The perfect is so much the easier reading to understand ("not even those who have actually been circumcised") as to be much more likely to be a correction displacing περιτεμνόμενοι than the converse hypothesis of the latter being a correction of the other borrowed from ver. 3. "They who are being circumcised" may be understood of a party, including those who first set the movement ageing, who were one after another undergoing the rite. Another turn is given to this participial phrase, as meaning "who are eager for circumcision," "who are all for being circumcised, the circumcision party." Bishop Lightfoot is in favour of this view, referring to "the apt quotation" from an apocryphal book, in which the phrase appears used in this very sense (see his note). It is a sense grammatically difficult to sustain from the usage of the New Testament; for ὁ διώκων of <a href="/galatians/1-23.htm">Galatians 1:23</a>, which has been cited on its behalf, does not bear it out. But the passion of scorn with which the apostle writes make the supposed strain upon strict grammatical propriety not altogether improbable. "Themselves;" this is inserted with allusion to the zeal shown by those men, both the first promoters and those drawn in by them, in urging upon others the observance, not indeed of the whole Law, but of certain of its prescriptions. The verb φυλάσσω is used similarly in <a href="/romans/2-26.htm">Romans 2:26</a>; <a href="/acts/21-24.htm">Acts 21:24</a>. The sense seems founded upon the notion of watching the Law to see what it requires, as one is endeavouring to carry it out. The article is wanting before νόμον, though specifically denoting the Law of Moses, as in <a href="/romans/2-25.htm">Romans 2:25, 27</a>, and often. But desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh (ἀλλὰ θέλουσιν ὑμᾶς περιτέμνεσθαι ἵνα ἐν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ σαρκὶ καυχήσωνται); but they desire you to receive circumcision, that in your flesh they may have whereof to glory. The conjunction ἀλλὰ is used in its proper original sense, "instead of that." All that they want is that in their intercourse with the Jews they may have your circumcision to refer to as evidence of the high respect which they and you as influenced by them have for the Law. "See! so far from trampling upon the Law, we and these our brethren too are adopting the very badge of the servants of the Law." The word "flesh" is in this clause used in its strictly literal signification. The account which the apostle here gives of the motives actuating this particular section of Judaizing reactionaries was no doubt grounded on specific information which he had just received. But such information, both in respect to its general probability and to its grave importance, was doubtless corroborated to his own mind by large experience which he had had elsewhere among the Gentile Churches of the behaviour of unsteady and imperfectly instructed Gentile converts. In almost every important place where Gentiles were won to the faith, there were previously existing communities of Jews (<a href="/acts/15-21.htm">Acts 15:21</a>); and contact with these must have given rise to an endless diversity of relations both of attraction and of repulsion. Everywhere, from the very first, the contact of Christianity with Judaism gave birth to varying phases of Judaico-Christian-ism such as afterwards developed into monstrous forms of error. It was no new thing with the apostle that he should find himself called upon to check, on the part of weak or insincere brethren, a tendency to draw towards Judaism at the cost of not merely unseemly but even fundamentally fatal compliances. The peril was always very near, and had to be constantly watched and guarded against. <a href="/commentaries/galatians/6-13.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. the οἱ (hoi) Article - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. circumcised περιτεμνόμενοι (peritemnomenoi) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4059.htm">Strong's 4059: </a> To cut around, circumcise. From peri and the base of tomoteros; to cut around, i.e. to circumcise. {do} not even οὐδὲ (oude) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_3761.htm">Strong's 3761: </a> Neither, nor, not even, and not. From ou and de; not however, i.e. Neither, nor, not even. keep φυλάσσουσιν (phylassousin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5442.htm">Strong's 5442: </a> Probably from phule through the idea of isolation; to watch, i.e. Be on guard; by implication, to preserve, obey, avoid. [the] Law νόμον (nomon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3551.htm">Strong's 3551: </a> From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. themselves, αὐτοὶ (autoi) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. yet ἀλλὰ (alla) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_235.htm">Strong's 235: </a> But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise. they want θέλουσιν (thelousin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2309.htm">Strong's 2309: </a> To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design. you ὑμᾶς (hymas) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. to be circumcised περιτέμνεσθαι (peritemnesthai) Verb - Present Infinitive Middle or Passive <a href="/greek/strongs_4059.htm">Strong's 4059: </a> To cut around, circumcise. From peri and the base of tomoteros; to cut around, i.e. to circumcise. that ἵνα (hina) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2443.htm">Strong's 2443: </a> In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. they may boast καυχήσωνται (kauchēsōntai) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Middle - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2744.htm">Strong's 2744: </a> To boast; I glory (exult) proudly. From some base akin to that of aucheo and euchomai; to vaunt. in ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. your ὑμετέρᾳ (hymetera) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Feminine 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5212.htm">Strong's 5212: </a> Your, yours. From humeis; yours, i.e. Pertaining to you. flesh. σαρκὶ (sarki) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4561.htm">Strong's 4561: </a> Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/galatians/6-13.htm">Galatians 6:13 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/galatians/6-13.htm">NT Letters: Galatians 6:13 For even they who receive circumcision don't (Gal. 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