¹² Some people want to do things that can be seen. They try to force you to be circumcised. They want to hide from trouble which would come to them if they talk about the cross of Christ.

¹³ Even those who are circumcised do not obey the law. But they want you to be circumcised. Then they can be proud that they made you do it.

¹⁴ But I will not be proud of anything but of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of it, the things of the world have become dead to me, and I have become dead to the world.