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For in Jesus Christ neitherc circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith whiche worketh by love.

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1 Cor. 7:19• ¹⁹Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments. (1 Cor. 7:19)

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1 Thess. 1:3• ³remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father, (1 Thess. 1:3)

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James 2:18‑22• ¹⁸But someone will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith apart from works, and out of my works I will show thee my faith.
¹⁹Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well; the demons also believe and shudder.
²⁰But art thou willing to learn, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
²²Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works faith was perfected. (James 2:18‑22)

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Gal. 5:2‑3• ²Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
³And I witness again to every man if circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. (Gal. 5:2‑3)

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Gal. 3:28• ²⁸There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondservant nor freeman, there is no male and female; for all ye are one in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:28)

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Gal. 6:15• ¹⁵For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. (Gal. 6:15)

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Rom. 2:25‑29• ²⁵For circumcision indeed profiteth if thou do law; but if thou be a transgressor of law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
²⁶If then the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,
²⁷and the natural uncircumcision, fulfilling the law, judge thee that in the way of letter and circumcision transgressest law?
²⁸For he that is outwardly a Jew is not [one], nor [is] that which is outward in flesh circumcision,
²⁹but he that [is so] hiddenly [is] a Jew, and circumcision of heart in spirit, not in letter, the praise of whom [is] not of men but of God. (Rom. 2:25‑29)

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Rom. 3:29‑31• ²⁹Is he, pray, the God of Jews only? [Is he] not also of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also;
³⁰since God [is] one who shall justify [the] circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith?
³¹Do we then make void law through faith? Let it not be: nay, we establish law. (Rom. 3:29‑31)

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1 Cor. 7:19• ¹⁹Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments. (1 Cor. 7:19)

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Col. 3:11• ¹¹where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond, free, but Christ the whole, and in all. (Col. 3:11)

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Matt. 25:31‑40• ³¹But when the Son of man shall have come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit down upon his throne of glory,
³²and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats;
³³and he will set the sheep on his right but the goats on the left.
³⁴Then shall the King say to those on his right, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the world's foundation.
³⁵For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
³⁶naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.
³⁷Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and fed thee; or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
³⁸and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and clothed thee?
³⁹and when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee?
⁴⁰And the King answering shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did [it] to me. (Matt. 25:31‑40)

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2 Cor. 5:14• ¹⁴For the love of Christ constraineth us, having judged this, that if one died for all, then they all were dead; (2 Cor. 5:14)

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1 Thess. 1:3• ³remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father, (1 Thess. 1:3)

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Heb. 11:8,17‑19• ⁸By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going.
¹⁷By faith Abraham when tried offered up Isaac, and he that received to himself the promises was offering his only-begotten
¹⁸as to whom it was spoken, In Isaac shall thy seed be called;
¹⁹accounting that God [is] able to raise even from out of dead [men], whence also he received him back in parable. (Heb. 11:8,17‑19)

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James 2:14‑26• ¹⁴What [is] the profit, my brethren, if one say he have faith, but have not works? Can faith save him?
¹⁵If a brother or a sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
¹⁶and one from among you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what [is] the profit?
¹⁷So also faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
¹⁸But someone will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith apart from works, and out of my works I will show thee my faith.
¹⁹Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well; the demons also believe and shudder.
²⁰But art thou willing to learn, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
²²Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
²³And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.
²⁴Ye see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
²⁵And likewise was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works in that she received the messengers and sent [them] out another way?
²⁶For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. (James 2:14‑26)

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1 Peter 1:8• ⁸whom, having not seen, ye love; in whom, though not now seeing but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and glorified, (1 Peter 1:8)

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1 John 3:14‑20• ¹⁴We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not the brother abideth in death.
¹⁵Every one that hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life eternal abiding in him.
¹⁶Herein we know love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.
¹⁷But whoso may have the world's means of living, and behold his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abideth the love of God in him?
¹⁸Dear children, let us not love with word nor with the tongue, but in deed and truth.
¹⁹And herein we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him,
²⁰that if our heart condemn us, [it is] that God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. (1 John 3:14‑20)

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1 John 4:18‑21• ¹⁸There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth hath not been perfected in love.
¹⁹We love, because he first loved us.
²⁰If Anyone say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
²¹And this commandment have we from him, that he that loveth God love also his brother. (1 John 4:18‑21)

• This new position can only be apprehended by faith, and faith “worketh by love.” (“Galatians 5” by H. Smith)

• "In Jesus Christ" circumcision can add nothing to the blessing, nor can uncircumcision hinder the blessing. The believer, viewed as in Christ before God, is outside both Jewish and Gentile circles. (“Galatians 5” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

W. Kelly Translation

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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision hath any force nor uncircumcision, but faith working by love.