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Galatians 5:11

New Century Version

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.

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Then he will be a place of safety for you. But for the two families of Israel, he will be like a stone that causes people to stumble, like a rock that makes them fall. He will be like a trap for the people of Jerusalem, and he will catch them in his trap.

Paul wanted Timothy to travel with him, but all the people living in that area knew that Timothy’s father was Greek. So Paul circumcised Timothy to please his mother’s people.

They have heard about your teaching, that you tell our people who live among the nations to leave the law of Moses. They have heard that you tell them not to circumcise their children and not to obey customs.

They shouted, “People of Israel, help us! This is the man who goes everywhere teaching against the law of Moses, against our people, and against this Temple. Now he has brought some Greeks into the Temple and has made this holy place unclean!”

The teaching about the cross is foolishness to those who are being lost, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

But we preach a crucified Christ. This causes the Jews to stumble and is foolishness to non-Jews.

And what about us? Why do we put ourselves in danger every hour?

Titus was with me, but he was not forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

You people in Galatia were told very clearly about the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. But you were foolish; you let someone trick you.

The son who was born in the normal way treated the other son badly. It is the same today.

Some people are trying to force you to be circumcised so the Jews will accept them. They are afraid they will be attacked if they follow only the cross of Christ.

So do not give me any more trouble. I have scars on my body that show I belong to Christ Jesus.




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