New Revised Standard Version
But my friends, why am I still being persecuted if I am still preaching circumcision? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, if I still preach that people need to be circumcised, why am I in so much trouble? The message about the cross would no longer be a problem, if I told people to be circumcised.

New American Bible
As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void.

And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void.

if.

Galatians 2:3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled to be circumcised.

Acts 16:3 Him Paul would have to go along with him: and taking him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they all knew that his father was a Gentile.

why.

Galatians 4:29 But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was after the spirit: so also it is now.

Galatians 6:12,17 For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ. . . .

Acts 21:21,28 Now they have heard of thee that thou teachest those Jews, who are among the Gentiles to depart from Moses: saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, nor walk according to the custom. . . .

Acts 22:21,22 And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send thee. . . .

Acts 23:13,14 And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:30 Why also are we in danger every hour?

2 Corinthians 11:23-26 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. . . .

the offence.

Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Romans 9:32,33 Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:18,23 For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God. . . .

1 Peter 2:8,9 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set. . . .