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. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskin as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment, you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the Lord and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. If you do not, my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you that no one will be able to extinguish. That will happen because of the evil you have done."

That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord's sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts."

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

In him you also were circumcised -- not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

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-- though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

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Then I will rejoice in the Lord and be happy because of his deliverance.

The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.

And Mary said, "My soul exalts the Lord,

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."

But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.