For indeedcircumcisionis of valueifyou practicethe Law;but ifyou are a transgressorof the Law,your circumcisionhas becomeuncircumcision.
"Circumciseyourselves to the LORDAnd removethe foreskinsof your heart,Menof Judahand inhabitantsof Jerusalem,OrelseMy wrathwill goforthlike fireAnd burnwith noneto quenchit, Becauseof the evilof your deeds."
"You men who are stiff-neckedand uncircumcisedin heartand earsare alwaysresistingthe HolySpirit;you are doing justas your fathersdid.
for [it is] not the hearersof the Law[who] are justbeforeGod,but the doersof the Lawwill be justified.
You whoboastin the Law,throughyour breakingthe Law,do you dishonorGod?
Soifthe uncircumcisedmankeepsthe requirementsof the Law,will not his uncircumcisionbe regardedas circumcision?
And he who is physicallyuncircumcised,if he keepsthe Law,will he not judgeyou whothoughhaving the letter[of the Law] and circumcisionare a transgressorof the Law?
For he is not a Jewwhois one outwardly,noris circumcisionthat which is outwardin the flesh.
Circumcisionis nothing,and uncircumcisionis nothing,but [what matters is] the keepingof the commandmentsof God.
For thosewho are circumciseddo not evenkeepthe Lawthemselves,but they desireto have you circumcisedsothat they may boastin your flesh.
For neitheris circumcisionanything,noruncircumcision,but a newcreation.
"Moreover the LORDyour Godwill circumciseyour heartand the heartof your descendants,to lovethe LORDyour Godwith allyour heartand with allyour soul,sothat you may live.
