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.