⁶ And ^(A)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

²⁶ I will give you a ^(A)new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ I will put My ^(B)Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

¹⁶ Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your ^(A)heart, and be ^(B)stiff-necked^[a] no longer.

¹⁹ Then ^(A)I will give them one heart, and I will put ^(B)a new spirit within ^[a]them, and take ^(C)the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, ^20 (D)that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; ^(E)and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

³⁹ then I will ^(A)give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.

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

Not Legalism but Christ

¹¹ In Him you were also ^(A)circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by ^(B)putting off the body ^[a]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

^3 (A)For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And ^(B)His commandments are not burdensome. ⁴ For ^(C)whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that ^(D)has overcome the world—^[a]our faith.