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Circumcision has value if you observe the
law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been
circumcised.
26 If those who are not circumcised keep the
law's requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?
27 The one who is not circumcised physically
and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written
code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
28 A man is not a Jew if he is only one
outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
29 No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly;
and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the
written code. Such a man's praise is not from men, but from God.
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