^16 (A)So circumcise ^[a]your heart, and ^(B)stiffen your neck no longer.

⁶ “Moreover ^(A)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your ^[a]descendants, ^(B)to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

²⁵ “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet ^(A)uncircumcised— ²⁶ Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and ^(B)all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are ^(C)uncircumcised of heart.”

²⁸ For ^(A)he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. ²⁹ But ^(B)he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and ^(C)circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the ^(D)Spirit, not by the letter; ^(E)and his praise is not from men, but from God.

¹¹ and in Him ^(A)you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of ^(B)the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;