⁵ Although all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people born on the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

¹⁵ For^[a] neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but a new creation is everything!^(A)

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working^[a] through love.^(A)

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but obeying the commandments of God is everything.^(A)

²⁶ So, if the uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

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

⁸ “You shall not act as we are acting here today, all of us according to our own desires, ⁹ for you have not yet come into the rest and the possession that the Lord your God is giving you.