⁵ Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

¹⁵ For ^(A)neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but ^(B)a new creation.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus ^(A)neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but ^(B)only faith working through love.

^19 (A)For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but ^(B)keeping the commandments of God.

²⁶ So, if ^(A)a man who is uncircumcised keeps ^(B)the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded^[a] as circumcision?

⁷ And if you had known ^(A)what this means, ^(B)‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

⁸ “You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, ^(A)everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes, ⁹ for you have not as yet come to ^(B)the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you.