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.

This is all I want to ask you: Did you receive the Spirit through doing what the Law commands, or through believing the message you heard?

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.

Tell me this, you who want to be subject to law: Will you not listen to the Law?

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

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.

Why, even those who let themselves be circumcised do not observe the Law themselves! But they want you to let yourselves be circumcised so that they can boast of that physical fact about you!

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.