10. This is important, because there are many people who refuse to obey—people who talk about worthless things and mislead others. I am talking especially about those who say that men who are not Jews must be circumcised to please God.
11. These people must be stopped, because they are destroying whole families by teaching what they should not teach. They teach only to cheat people and make money.
12. Even one of their own prophets said, “Cretans are always liars. They are evil animals and lazy people who do nothing but eat.”