11. As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.
12. Would that those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves!
13. For you were called for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love.
14. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
15. But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
16. I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.
17. For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.