Jeremiah 4:4
4:4 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.”
Leviticus 26:41
26:41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and
then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for
their iniquity,
Deuteronomy 30:6
30:6 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.
Ezekiel 44:7
44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate
it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You
have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
Ezekiel 44:9
44:9 This is what the sovereign
Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary.
Acts 7:51
7:51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
Romans 2:28-29
2:28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,
2:29 but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart
by the Spirit
and not by the written code.
This person’s
praise is not from people but from God.