If anyone teaches differently and does not consent to sound words, even those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but [is] morbidly concerned with disputes and word battles, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

and they have been informed about you, that you are teaching defection from Moses, to all the Jews who are among the Gentiles, saying for them not to circumcise their children nor to walk in our customs.

Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay for them that they may have their head shaved, and that all may know that those things of which they have been informed about you are nothing, but [that] you are agreeing with and keeping the law yourself.

Otherwise as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I command in all the churches.

For God is not [the author] of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

let your women be silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak, but to be in subjection, just as the law also says.

Now concerning the collection which is for the saints, as I directed to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen, just as also they did by the Jews,