and the Law has nothing to do with faith; it teaches that it is the man who does these things that will find life by doing them.

These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them.

These men who are trying to force you to let yourselves be circumcised want to present a good appearance externally, to save themselves from having to stand persecution for the cross of Jesus the Christ.