Galatians 5:6-13, New Living Translation
6 For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, it makes no difference to God whether we are circumcised or not circumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.
7 You were getting along so well. Who has interfered with you to hold you back from following the truth?
8 It certainly isn't God, for he is the one who called you to freedom.
9 But it takes only one wrong person among you to infect all the others—a little yeast spreads quickly through the whole batch of dough!
10 I am trusting the Lord to bring you back to believing as I do about these things. God will judge that person, whoever it is, who has been troubling and confusing you.
11 Dear brothers and sisters,[1][Greek Brothers. ] if I were still preaching that you must be circumcised—as some say I do—why would the Jews persecute me? The fact that I am still being persecuted proves that I am still preaching salvation through the cross of Christ alone.
12 I only wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.[2][Or castrate themselves; Greek reads cut themselves off.]
13 For you have been called to live in freedom—not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love.
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