1. For freedom, Messiah set us free—so stand firm, and do not be burdened by a yoke of slavery again.
2. Listen—I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Messiah will be of no benefit to you.
3. Again I testify to every man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is obligated to keep the whole Torah.
4. You who are trying to be justified by Torah have been cut off from Messiah; you have fallen away from grace.
5. For through the Ruach, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
6. For in Messiah Yeshua, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any meaning—but only trust and faithfulness expressing itself through love.
7. You were running a great race! Who blocked you from following the truth?
8. This detour doesn’t come from the One who calls you.
9. A little hametz works its way through the whole batch of dough!
10. I am confident in the Lord that you will not think otherwise. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he is.
11. As for me, brothers and sisters, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the stumbling block of the cross has been eliminated.
12. I only wish those who are agitating you would castrate themselves!
13. Brothers and sisters, you were called to freedom—only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
14. For the whole Torah can be summed up in a single saying: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
15. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not destroyed by one another.