Galatians 6:13 KJV — MannaFest

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

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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.

WEB

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

DBT

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.

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Galatians — Paul's gospel defended against a different gospel. Biography, then argument, then ethics — the Magna Carta of Christian liberty.

Author: Paul (1:1), no co-sender
Date: c. AD 48–49 (south-Galatia view) or c. AD 53–55 (north-Galatia view)

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Philippians 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.
Acts 15:1
And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Matthew 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.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 1:31
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

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(2.) The true way to have rejoicing in ourselves is to be much in proving our own works, in examining ourselves by the unerring rule of God's word, and not by the false measures of what others are, or may think of us. (3.) It is much more desirable to have matter of glorying in ourselves than in another.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He acquaints us, on the other hand, with his own temper and behaviour, or makes profession of his own faith, hope, and joy; particularly, 1. That his principle glory was in the cross of Christ: God forbid, says he, that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They arbitrarily selected circumcision out of the whole law, as though observing it would stand instead of their non-observance of the rest of the law. that they may glory in your flesh--namely, in the outward change (opposed to an inward change wrought by the SPIRIT) which they have effected in bringing you over to their own Jewish-Christian party.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

For neither they themselves keep the whole law - So far are they from a real zeal for it. But yet they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh - That they may boast of you as their proselytes, and make a merit of this with the other Jews.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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