Galatians 5:11-13
Living Bible
11 Some people even say that I myself am preaching that circumcision and Jewish laws are necessary to the plan of salvation. Well, if I preached that, I would be persecuted no more—for that message doesn’t offend anyone. The fact that I am still being persecuted proves that I am still preaching salvation through faith in the cross of Christ alone.
12 I only wish these teachers who want you to cut yourselves by being circumcised would cut themselves off from you and leave you alone![a]
13 For, dear brothers, you have been given freedom: not freedom to do wrong, but freedom to love and serve each other.
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- Galatians 5:12 these teachers . . . would cut themselves off from you and leave you alone, or “those disturbing you would go and castrate themselves.”
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