Don’t think y’all can say to yourselves*, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell y’all that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
“I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
and this is a symbol of the baptism which now saves y’all (not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
Y’all must circumcise yourselves* to YHWH, and take away the foreskins of y’all’s heart, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or else my wrath will go out like fire and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the of y’all’s evil deeds.
Therefore remember that formerly y’all who are ethnic groups in the flesh and called “uncircumcision” by those who are called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),