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Galatians 5:2

James Moffatt - New Testament

Here, listen to Paul! I tell you, if you get circumcised, Christ will be no use to you.

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in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

For we have had the good news as well as they; only, the message they heard was of no use to them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.

I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!

I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ — the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'

Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls,

(We did want to reach you — I did, I Paul, more than once — but Satan stopped us.)

I prefer to appeal to you on the ground of love. Well then, as Paul the old man, who now-a-days is a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

I Paul write this salutation with my own hand.

But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and said, "Gentiles must be circumcised and told to observe the law of Moses."

This is in my own handwriting: 'I Paul promise to refund it' — not to mention that you owe me, over and above, your very soul.




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