³⁰ since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.^(A)

⁸ Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”^[a](A)

²⁰ A mediator,^(A) however, implies more than one party; but God is one.

³ For it is we who are the circumcision,^(A) we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus,^(B) and who put no confidence in the flesh—

¹⁰ and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head^(A) over every power and authority.^{(B) 11} In him you were also circumcised^(C) with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh^[a](D) was put off when you were circumcised by^[b] Christ,

¹⁵ Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything;^(A) what counts is the new creation.^(B)

⁶ For in Christ Jesus^(A) neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.^(B) The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.^(C)

¹⁴ When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel,^(A) I said to Cephas^(B) in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew.^(C) How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?^(D)

¹⁵ “We who are Jews by birth^(E) and not sinful Gentiles^{(F) 16} know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,^(G) but by faith in Jesus Christ.^(H) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in^[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.^(I)

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free,^(A) nor is there male and female,^(B) for you are all one in Christ Jesus.^(C)