8. It was not done by God, who calls you.
9. “It takes only a little yeast to make the whole batch of dough rise,” as they say.
10. But I still feel confident about you. Our life in union with the Lord makes me confident that you will not take a different view and that the man who is upsetting you, whoever he is, will be punished by God.
11. But as for me, my brothers and sisters, if I continue to preach that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? If that were true, then my preaching about the cross of Christ would cause no trouble.
12. I wish that the people who are upsetting you would go all the way; let them go on and castrate themselves!