Cross references

Galatians 6:12

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

Galatians 6:12 BSB

Galatians 6:12 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Acts 15:1 (5 votes) and Galatians 5:11 (5 votes). 23 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Genesis 17 to Colossians 2.

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Which verses does Galatians 6:12 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Acts 15:15 votes

    Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

  2. Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

  3. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

  4. Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

  5. Luke 16:153 votes

    So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

  6. Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

  7. So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

  8. When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

  9. All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

  10. In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

  11. Luke 20:472 votes
  12. John 7:182 votes
  13. Acts 15:52 votes
  14. For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Which verses point to Galatians 6:12?

The 10 strongest of 23.