this one Paul wished to go forth with him; and, taking him, he circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Why

But, just as then, the one born after the flesh kept persecuting him born after the Spirit, so also is it now.

As many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

And they were informed by report concerning you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after the customs.

And He said to me, 'Depart, because I will send you far hence to the gentiles.'

And there were more than forty, who made this conspiracy;

Why, too, are we in peril every hour?

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often;

The offence

Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling;

For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness; but to those who are being saved, it is the power of God.

and "a stone of stumbling, and rock of offense"; who stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which also they were appointed.

General references

Why, too, are we in peril every hour?

For, if I am building up again, what I pulled down, I show myself to be a transgressor.