²⁵ For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

⁴ Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.

¹¹ Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

¹² that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

¹⁵ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;

³ and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;

⁴ ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

⁵ for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

⁶ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

¹¹ and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

¹² and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is `so' outwardly, neither `is' circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

²⁹ but a Jew `is' he who is `so' inwardly, and circumcision `is' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

¹ What, then, `is' the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

² much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

²³ thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?

⁵¹ `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

²⁵ Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin,

²⁶ On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner `of the beard', Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations `are' uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel `are' uncircumcised in heart!

⁶ `And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;