Galatians 5:6

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Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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Colossians 3:11

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Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, the Messiah will be of no benefit to you.

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.

For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised.

Is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the gentiles, too? Yes, of the gentiles, too,

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but obeying God's commandments is everything.

In him there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free person. Instead, the Messiah is all and in all.

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I'm going to do this because Abraham did what I told him to do. He kept my instructions, commands, statutes, and laws."

"You may eat anything that lives in the water that is, you may eat anything that has fins and scales either from the seas or from the rivers.

"Look! Today I have set before you life and what is good, along with death and what is evil.

Instead, new wine is to be poured into fresh wineskins.

"If you love me, keep my commandments.

since there is only one God who will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the uncircumcised by that same faith.

But not even Titus, who was with me, was forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

Let brotherly love continue.

And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.