8. This change did not come from the One who chose you.
9. Be careful! “Just a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise.”
10. But I trust in the Lord that you will not believe those different ideas. Whoever is confusing you with such ideas will be punished.
11. My brothers and sisters, I do not teach that a man must be circumcised. If I teach circumcision, why am I still being attacked? If I still taught circumcision, my preaching about the cross would not be a problem.
12. I wish the people who are bothering you would castrate themselves!
13. My brothers and sisters, God called you to be free, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do what pleases your sinful self. Serve each other with love.
14. The whole law is made complete in this one command: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”
15. If you go on hurting each other and tearing each other apart, be careful, or you will completely destroy each other.
16. So I tell you: Live by following the Spirit. Then you will not do what your sinful selves want.
17. Our sinful selves want what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is against our sinful selves. The two are against each other, so you cannot do just what you please.
18. But if the Spirit is leading you, you are not under the law.
19. The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful, not being pure, taking part in sexual sins,