It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

These men make much of you ??yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Why, even the circumcision party do not observe the Law themselves! They merely want you to get circumcised, so as to boast over your flesh!