Romans 2:25

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Don’t quench the Spirit.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring of Abraham.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?