KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Galatians 6:11–12
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Galatians 6:11
11Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
11Ye see how large a letter I haue written vnto you with mine owne hand.
Galatians 6:12
12As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
12As many as desire to make a faire shew in the flesh, they constraine you to be Circumcised: onely least they should suffer persecution for the Crosse of Christ.
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DEFINED WORDS
Galatians 6:11
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Great in size, extent, amount, or capacity; broad or spacious.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A written message or epistle; also a character of writing.
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To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Galatians 6:12
A great number; numerous persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To wish for, long for, request, or take pleasure in.
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To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To show; to make visible, reveal, declare, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To compel or strongly urge.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
circumcised
Having the foreskin cut away; also used in Scripture of the covenant sign and figurative inward separation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To bear, undergo, or endure pain, loss, or hardship; also to allow or permit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
persecution
Persistent harassment, punishment, or injury inflicted unjustly, especially for faith or conviction.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
An upright execution stake with a crosspiece; Christ's crucifixion and its reproach or burden; also to pass from one side to another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study21The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.
23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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Open the full verse study22I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study11And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
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Open the full verse study13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
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Open the full verse study1AND certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
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Open the full verse study23Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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Open the full verse study3But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
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Open the full verse study15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
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Open the full verse study12For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
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Open the full verse study5But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
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Open the full verse study14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
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Open the full verse study13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
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Open the full verse study18He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
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Open the full verse study47Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
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Open the full verse study28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Open the full verse study5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
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Open the full verse study16¶ Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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Open the full verse study2Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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Open the full verse study15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
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Open the full verse study4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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Open the full verse study18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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Open the full verse study5¶ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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