²⁴ Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

¹ Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."

¹² I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

¹⁰ I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

¹⁰ For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

⁷ and there isn't another gospel. Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ.

¹⁴ Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

¹² As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

¹³ For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

⁴ You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

³ But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

⁴ This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

⁹ He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

¹⁰ Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

¹⁶ Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.