And they, hearing it, were glorifying God, and said to him, "You observe, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews, of those who have believed; and they are all zealous for the law.

and that was because of the false brethren secretly introduced, who, indeed, crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

The brethren

having written through their hand thus: "The apostles, and the elders, brethren, to the brethren from the gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting:

Except

But there rose up some from the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses."

Happy is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin."

For freedom did Christ make us free; stand fast, therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil-workers, beware of the mutilation.

Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;

After

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

Ye

Forasmuch as we heard that some from among us troubled you with words, unsettling your souls??o whom we gave no directions;

Was any one called, having been circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Then, fourteen years later, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking with me Titus also.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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