Galatians 6:13
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.

Contemporary English Version
They are circumcised, but they don't obey the Law of Moses. All they want is to brag about having you circumcised.

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

keep.

Matthew 23:3,15,23 All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not. . . .

Romans 2:17-24 But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God, . . .

Romans 3:9-19 What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. . . .

2 Peter 2:19 Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

that they may.

1 Corinthians 3:21 Let no man therefore glory in men.

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

2 Corinthians 11:18 Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.

Context
Paul's Final Warning
12For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ. 13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. 14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.…
Cross References
Romans 2:25
Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.

Galatians 6:12
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