For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.