³⁴ “All right,” Laban replied. “It will be as you say.”

¹² I just wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.^[a]

⁵ I wish you could all speak in tongues, but even more I wish you could all prophesy. For prophecy is greater than speaking in tongues, unless someone interprets what you are saying so that the whole church will be strengthened.

⁷ But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. Yet each person has a special gift from God, of one kind or another.

²⁹ “You have made me look like a fool!” Balaam shouted. “If I had a sword with me, I would kill you!”