Good News TranslationEven 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.
