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For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

Bible References

For he

Romans 9:6
It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
Psalm 73:1
A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!
Isaiah 1:9
If the Lord who commands armies had not left us a few survivors, we would have quickly become like Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 48:1
Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name 'Israel,' and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel -- but not in an honest and just manner.
Hosea 1:6
She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lord said to him, "Name her 'No Pity' (Lo-Ruhamah) because I will no longer have pity on the nation of Israel. For I will certainly not forgive their guilt.
Matthew 3:9
and don't think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!"
John 8:37
I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation!
Revelation 2:9
I know the distress you are suffering and your poverty (but you are rich). I also know the slander against you by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Neither

Jeremiah 9:26
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."
Romans 4:10
How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!
1 Peter 3:21
And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you -- not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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