7 If you think you can fool God, you are only fooling yourselves. You will harvest what you plant.
8 If you live to satisfy your sinful self, the harvest you will get from that will be eternal death. But if you live to please the Spirit, your harvest from the Spirit will be eternal life.
9 We must not get tired of doing good. We will receive our harvest of eternal life at the right time. We must not give up.
10 When we have the opportunity to do good to anyone, we should do it. But we should give special attention to those who are in the family of believers.
11 This is my own handwriting. You can see how big the letters are.
12 Those men who are trying to force you to be circumcised are only doing it so that their people will accept them. They are afraid they will be persecuted if they follow only the cross of Christ.
13 They are circumcised, but they don’t obey the law themselves. They want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about what they did to you.