¹² Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. ^(A)You have not injured me at all.

⁵ But ^(A)if anyone has caused grief, he has not ^(B)grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe.

⁴ So he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight at Ramoth Gilead?”

Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, ^(A)“I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

²⁰ and ^(A)to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the ^[a]law, that I might win those who are under the law; ^21 (B)to ^(C)those who are without law, as without law ^(D)(not being without ^[b]law toward God, but under ^[c]law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; ^22 (E)to the weak I became ^[d]as weak, that I might win the weak. ^(F)I have become all things to all men, ^(G)that I might by all means save some. ²³ Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.

¹⁵ But on this condition we will consent to you: If you will become as we are, if every male of you is circumcised,

⁷ But ^(A)what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. ⁸ Yet indeed I also count all things loss ^(B)for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

¹⁴ But God forbid that I should boast except in the ^(A)cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by ^[a]whom the world has been crucified to me, and ^(B)I to the world.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not straightforward about ^(A)the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter ^(B)before them all, ^(C)“If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, ^[a]why do you compel Gentiles to live as ^[b]Jews?

¹³ Now in return for the same ^(A)(I speak as to children), you also be open.