²⁴ Since we have heard that ^(A)some persons have gone out from us and ^(B)troubled you^[a] with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,

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15 ^(A)But some men came down from Judea and were teaching ^(B)the brothers, “Unless you are ^(C)circumcised ^(D)according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

¹² I wish ^(A)those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

^10 (A)I have confidence in the Lord that you will ^(B)take no other view, and ^(C)the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.

^19 (A)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for ^(B)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ^(C)that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

¹⁰ For there are many who are insubordinate, ^(A)empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of ^(B)the circumcision party.^{[a] 11} They must be silenced, since ^(C)they are upsetting whole families by teaching ^(D)for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

^7 (A)not that there is another one, but ^(B)there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

^12 (A)It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh ^(B)who would force you to be circumcised, and only ^(C)in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

³ But even Titus, who was with me, ^(A)was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. ^4 (B)Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who ^(C)slipped in to spy out ^(D)our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, ^(E)so that they might bring us into slavery—