I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.

This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!

I wish those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves!

I am confident in the Lord that you will accept no other view. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!

They were only hearing, “The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy.”

But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

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

From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

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.