Philippians 3:3

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Summary

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

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Philippians 3:4

1 Peter 1:23

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No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.

It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

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And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.

In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

And Mary said: My soul gives glory to God;

If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

So that your pride in me may be increased in Christ Jesus through my being present with you again.