Galatians 6:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 23:3 : 3 All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.
  • Matt 23:15 : 15 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
  • Rom 2:17-25 : 17 But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God, 18 And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law, 19 In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark, 20 A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true; 21 You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours? 22 You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God? 23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law? 24 For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings. 25 It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin; 10 As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness; 11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God; 12 They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one: 13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words: 15 Their feet are quick in running after blood; 16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways; 17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
  • 1 Cor 3:21 : 21 So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours;
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
  • 2 Cor 11:18 : 18 Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 6:12
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    12Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

  • Gal 6:14-15
    2 verses
    82%

    14But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

    15For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

  • Rom 2:23-29
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    78%

    23You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

    24For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

    25It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

    26If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

    27And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

    28The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

    29But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

  • Gal 5:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

    2See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

    3Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

    4You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • Phil 3:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

    4Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

  • Gal 5:11-13
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    75%

    11But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

    12My desire is that they who give you trouble might even be cut off themselves.

    13Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

  • Gal 5:6
    74%

    6Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

  • Gal 2:3-4
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    3But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:

    4And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

  • Rom 8:8
    72%

    8So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.

    19Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    72%

    12But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

  • Gal 5:24
    72%

    24And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

  • Acts 16:3
    72%

    3Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.

  • Gal 4:17
    72%

    17Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.

  • 2 Cor 11:18
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    18Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.

  • Col 2:11
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    11In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.

  • Acts 15:24
    71%

    24Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

  • Rom 2:14
    71%

    14For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

  • Gal 6:2
    71%

    2Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

  • Gal 4:15
    70%

    15Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Rom 8:5
    70%

    5For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

  • Rom 13:14
    70%

    14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

  • 1 Tim 1:7
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    7Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

  • Gal 5:17
    70%

    17For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

  • Acts 21:21
    70%

    21And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.

  • Gal 2:16
    70%

    16Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
    70%

    12We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
    70%

    6Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

  • Gal 4:21
    70%

    21Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

  • John 7:22
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    22Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

  • Rom 2:17
    70%

    17But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

  • 1 Cor 1:29
    70%

    29So that no flesh might have glory before God.

  • Acts 15:1
    70%

    1Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.

  • Gal 6:17
    70%

    17From this time on let no man be a trouble to me; because my body is marked with the marks of Jesus.