Galatians 5:12
Good News Translation
I wish that the people who are upsetting you would go all the way; let them go on and castrate themselves!

New Revised Standard Version
I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!

Contemporary English Version
I wish everyone who is upsetting you would not only get circumcised, but would cut off much more!

New American Bible
Would that those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I would they were even cut off, who trouble you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I would they were even cut off, who trouble you.

cut.

Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be.

Galatians 1:8,9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. . . .

Genesis 17:14 The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.

Exodus 30:33 What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 22:3 Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the children of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord.

Joshua 7:12,25 Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness. . . .

John 9:34 They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

Acts 5:5,9 And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost. And there came great fear upon all that heard it. . . .

1 Corinthians 5:13 For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

Titus 3:10 A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

trouble.

Acts 15:1,2,24 And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That, except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved. . . .

Context
Freedom in Christ
11And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void. 12I would they were even cut off, who trouble you. 13For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:1
An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

Galatians 2:4
But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude.

Galatians 5:10
I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be.

Galatians 5:11
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