But we do consent to do this: if you will become as we are and every male among you be circumcised,
This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your posterity after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
They said to them, We cannot do this thing and give our sister to one who is not circumcised, for that would be a reproach and disgrace to us.
Then we will give our daughters to you and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
Brethren, I beg of you, become as I am [free from the bondage of Jewish ritualism and ordinances], for I also have become as you are [a Gentile]. You did me no wrong [in the days when I first came to you; do not do it now].