ἀναγκάζω

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”