Galatians 6:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

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  • Gal 5:11 : 11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;
  • Acts 15:1 : 1 And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
  • Gal 2:3 : 3 but not even Titus, who `is' with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --
  • Col 2:23 : 23 which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.
  • Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
  • Acts 15:5 : 5 and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying -- `It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.'
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;
  • Phil 2:4 : 4 each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.
  • Phil 3:18 : 18 for many walk of whom many times I told you -- and now also weeping tell -- the enemies of the cross of the Christ!
  • Matt 6:2 : 2 whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you -- they have their reward!
  • Matt 6:5 : 5 `And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places -- standing -- to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
  • Matt 6:16 : 16 `And when ye may fast, be ye not as the hypocrites, of sour countenances, for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men fasting; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 `And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,
  • Matt 23:28 : 28 so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;
  • Luke 20:47 : 47 who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
  • John 7:18 : 18 `He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;

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  • Gal 6:13-17
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    13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

    14 And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

    15 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;

    16 and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

    17 Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.

  • Gal 5:10-13
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    10 I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

    11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

    12 O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

    13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

  • Gal 5:1-3
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    1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

    2 lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

    3 and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;

  • Phil 3:3-4
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    3 for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

    4 though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

  • 11 Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;

  • 24 and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

  • 3 this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken `him', he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.

  • 12 and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

  • Rom 2:24-28
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    24 for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

    25 For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

    26 If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?

    27 and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, `art' a transgressor of law.

    28 For he is not a Jew who is `so' outwardly, neither `is' circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

  • Phil 1:15-16
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    15 Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

    16 the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

  • Gal 2:3-4
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    3 but not even Titus, who `is' with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --

    4 and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

  • 17 they are zealous for you -- `yet' not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

  • 2 of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

  • 10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

  • 6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

  • 14 but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

  • 1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

  • 11 in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

  • 15 what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

  • 18 being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;

  • 18 for many walk of whom many times I told you -- and now also weeping tell -- the enemies of the cross of the Christ!

  • 6 for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

  • 2 and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

  • 14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

  • 12 Become as I `am' -- because I also `am' as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

  • 12 for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

  • 11 Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

  • 1 And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'

  • 24 seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,

  • 18 since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

  • 4 so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.

  • 10 only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.

  • 14 for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

  • 6 nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.