Ok, NIV, and multiple versions, once again, here we go:
Galatians 5:12 KJB - I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Galatians 5:12 GNT TR - οφελον και αποκοψονται οι αναστατουντες υμας
Sounds clear, right? Paul desired to have those meddlesome persons separated from the flock. Spiritual.
Let's see the filthy carnal minds of the more modern translators...
Galatians 5:12 NIV - As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Galatians 5:12 ASV - I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.
Galatians 5:12 CEV [E-Sword] - I wish that everyone who is upsetting you would not only get circumcised, but would cut off much more!
Galatians 5:12 ESV - I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
Galatians 5:12 CEB - I wish that the ones who are upsetting you would castrate themselves!
Galatians 5:12 GNT - I wish that the people who are upsetting you would go all the way; let them go on and castrate themselves!
Galatians 5:12 ISV - I wish that those who are upsetting you would castrate themselves!
Galatians 5:12 HCSB - I wish those who are disturbing you might also get themselves castrated!
Galatians 5:12 NASB - I wish that those who are troubling you would even [a]mutilate themselves.
Galatians 5:12 NLT - I just wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.
Wow, those 'renderings' are really 'spirit' filled, just not of the Holy Spirit. Filled with retaliation, and mutilation, and castration.
Paul, what should "cut off" mean?
Romans 11:22 KJB - Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Moses, what should "cut off" mean?
Exodus 12:19 KJB - Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Leviticus 7:21 KJB - Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:25 KJB - For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 22:3 KJB - Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
Joshua, what does "cut off" mean?
Joshua 3:16 KJB - That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Chronicler, what does "cut off" mean?
1 Kings 9:7 KJB - Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
2 Chronicles 32:21 KJB - And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
Zechariah, what does "cut off" mean?
Zechariah 11:16 KJB - For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
A new problem...
Now:
Judges 1:14 KJB - And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
Let's compare another modern [per]version:
New English Bible - "... The New English Bible expresses no denominational or doctrinal viewpoint. It is not a revision of any previous version, but a completely new rendering, which seeks to achieve [1] clarity, [2] dignity, and in many places [3] true poetry. ..."
Judges 1:14 NEB - When she came to him, he incited her to ask her father for a piece of land. As she sat on the ass, she broke wind, and Caleb said, 'What did you mean by that?
There you have it folks:
[1] clarity
[2] dignity
[3] true poetry
The parallel is also repeated in the same manner in
Joshua 15:18 NEB.
Those who change and alter and "cut" away, and add into the Bible such things, are writing into them their own judgment.