6 ¹¹ YOU SEE these big letters? I am now writing to you in my own hand. 6 ¹² It is all those who want to make a fair outward and bodily show who are trying to force circumcision upon you; their sole object is to escape persecution for the cross of Christ. 6 ¹³ For even those who do receive circumcision are not thoroughgoing observers of the law: they only want you to be circumcised in order to boast of your having submitted to that outward rite. 6 ¹⁴ But God forbid that I should boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which Or: whom. the world is crucified to me and I to the world! 6 ¹⁵ Circumcision is nothing; uncircumcision is is nothing; the only thing that counts is new creation! 6 ¹⁶ Whoever they are who take this principle for their guide, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the whole Israel of God!

6 ¹⁷ In future let no one make trouble for me, for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.

6 ¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, my brothers. Amen.