⁵ For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.

¹⁵ For ^(A)in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

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

^19 (A)Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but ^(B)keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

²⁶ Therefore, ^(A)if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

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

⁸ “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—^(A)every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes— ⁹ for as yet you have not come to the ^(B)rest^[a] and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.