Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of Elohim, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Messiah;
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Messiah.
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in the Messiah Yahshua, that they might bring us into bondage:
But now, after that ye have known Yahweh, or rather are known of Yahweh, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage?
As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the [torture] stake of the Messiah.