³ For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

¹¹ In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

¹³ Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

¹⁴ But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

¹⁵ For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

¹¹ And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

¹² And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

²⁵ It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

²⁶ If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

²⁷ And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

²⁸ The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

⁶ And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

⁶ But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

²⁵ If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.

¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

⁴ Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

⁵ Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

⁶ In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

⁷ But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

⁸ Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

²³ Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

²⁴ For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

²⁵ But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.

²⁰ But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,

²⁹ So that no flesh might have glory before God.

³⁰ But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

³¹ So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

¹⁷ So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.

²⁶ And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

²⁷ And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.

¹⁶ Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

³ Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.

²⁵ In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.

⁴ Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

²³ This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:

²⁴ But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

²⁶ On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.

¹¹ For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.

²³ But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.

²⁴ God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.

⁹ For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

¹⁵ For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

⁵ No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

⁶ I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

⁷ And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

⁸ And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

⁹ And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

¹⁰ And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

¹¹ In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.