And they having heard it glorified God, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law.

and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

The brethren

having by their hand written thus: The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among the nations at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting:

Except

And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, rose up from among them, saying that they ought to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.

blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.

See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

After

This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee that every male among you be circumcised.

And on the eighth day shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised.

Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.

Ye

Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls, saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law; to whom we gave no commandment;

Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me;

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.