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Final Warnings and Blessings

Galatians 6:13

In 9 translations

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.
LSV
for neither do those circumcised keep the Law themselves, but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
YLT
for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.
DBY
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.
DRC
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.
GNV
For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.

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  • NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus read περιτεμνόμενοι (“being circumcised”); Tyndale House, Byzantine text read περιτετμημένοι (“circumcised”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: περιτεμνόμενοι. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read περιτεμνόμενοι; Robinson–Pierpont read περιτετμημένοι.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ περιτεμνόμενοι αὐτοὶ νόμον φυλάσσουσιν, ἀλλὰ θέλουσιν ὑμᾶς περιτέμνεσθαι ἵνα ἐν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ σαρκὶ καυχήσωνται.
RP2018
Οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ περιτετμημένοι αὐτοὶ νόμον φυλάσσουσιν, ἀλλὰ θέλουσιν ὑμᾶς περιτέμνεσθαι, ἵνα ἐν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ σαρκὶ καυχήσωνται.
TR-Boyd
Οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ περιτεμνόμενοι αὐτοὶ νόμον φυλάσσουσιν, ἀλλὰ θέλουσιν ὑμᾶς περιτέμνεσθαι, ἵνα ἐν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ σαρκὶ καυχήσωνται.
SCR1894
ουδε γαρ οι περιτεμνομενοι αυτοι νομον φυλασσουσιν αλλα θελουσιν υμας περιτεμνεσθαι ινα εν τη υμετερα σαρκι καυχησωνται

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Philippians 3:3For 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—
  • 1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
  • Romans 2:17–25Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; if you are convinced that you are a guide for…
  • 2 Peter 2:19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
  • 2 Corinthians 11:18Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
  • Matthew 23:3So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
  • Matthew 23:15Woe 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.
  • Romans 3:9–19What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands,…
  • 1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
  • Matthew 23:23Woe 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…

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