I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to change the good news about the Messiah.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on human thought.

I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

I am afraid for you! I don't want my work for you to have been wasted!

These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.

Now, it is fine for someone to want to seek you out anytime, if it is for a good purpose, and not just when I am around [to be impressed].

Tell me, those of you who want to be under the law, don’t you hear the law?

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

But, if you are led by [what] the Holy Spirit [wants you to do], you are not under [obligation to meet the requirements of] the law of Moses.

Those who want to make a good impression in public [before the Jews] try to compel you to be circumcised, just so they will escape being persecuted for [faithfulness to] the cross of Christ.

For even the circumcised [Jews] themselves do not [really] keep the Law, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh [that is, in the fact that they convinced you to be circumcised].

But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.

For neither circumcision nor the want of it is of any importance, but only a new creation.