As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

For not even those who are circumcised keep the Law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice more a son of Gehenna than yourselves.

For I bear witness of them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full true knowledge.

For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.

Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the decrees just as I delivered them to you.

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus.

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, the ones who have actually escaped from those living in error.

You are already full. You are already rich. You have reigned as kings without us; and indeed I wish you truly did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.