² Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised,^(A) Christ will be of no value to you at all.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus^(A) neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.^(B) The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.^(C)

³ Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.^{(A) 4} You who are trying to be justified by the law^(B) have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.^(C)

³ Yet not even Titus,^(A) who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.^{(B) 4} This matter arose because some false believers^(C) had infiltrated our ranks to spy on^(D) the freedom^(E) we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves. ⁵ We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel^(F) might be preserved for you.

³¹ but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,^(A) have not attained their goal.^{(B) 32} Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.^(C)