Circumcision Revisited

Galatians 6:12-13 NASB
12 Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
13 For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Who is trying to compel the Galatians to be circumcised?
Why are they trying to compel the Galatians to be circumcised?
In verse 13, what phrase seems synonymous with "make a good showing in the flesh"?
Where else in Galatians have we seen Paul linking the flesh with the Law?
Reread Galatians 3: 2-3, 4:19-31.

In verse 13, what phrase seems synonymous with "compel you to be circumcised"?
What contrast word do you see in verse 13? What is the contrast?
If the Galatians were to be circumcised, what would they be doing in relation to the Law?
What has Paul told them about this in this letter?
Reread Galatians 2.
What example does Paul give in Galatians 2 of a person who did not feel compelled to be circumcised?
Who was opposing Paul and his companions? What was their aim?
Why didn't Paul and his companions yield to their demands?
With whom did Paul have a problem over this issue in the past?
In verse 2:16, what did Paul say about works of the Law?
From the context of this verse, what would one of those works be?

Read Galatians 3:23-26.
If someone is under faith, what isn't he or she under?

Read Galatians 4:1-7.
If you're under the Law, what are you?
What did God do to change that situation?

Read Galatians 6:12-13.
Then read Philippians 3:2-11.
Obviously the Galatians weren't the only ones who were being hounded by those who insisted that Christians needed to be circumcised in order to be right with God.
What does Paul feel compelled to let believers know?