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25 (A)Circumcision, to be sure, has value if you observe the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.(B)

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25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law,(A) but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.(B)

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29 Rather, one is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit, not the letter; his praise is not from human beings but from God.(A)

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29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart,(A) by the Spirit,(B) not by the written code.(C) Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.(D)

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(A)For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.[a]

Be Not Misled.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 5:6 Cf. Rom 2:25–26; 1 Cor 7:19; Gal 6:15. The Greek for faith working through love or “faith expressing itself through love” can also be rendered as “faith energized by (God’s) love.”
  2. 5:7–12 Paul addresses the Galatians directly: with questions (Gal 5:7, 11), a proverb (Gal 5:9), a statement (Gal 5:8), and biting sarcasm (Gal 5:12), seeking to persuade the Galatians to break with those trying to add law and circumcision to Christ as a basis for salvation.

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)

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15 For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision,(A) but only a new creation.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 6:15 New creation: or “new creature”; cf. 2 Cor 5:17.

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

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