So Jesus said to those who believed in him, "If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples;

They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." "If you really were Abraham's children," Jesus replied, "you would do the same things that he did.

After all, who is a real Jew, truly circumcised? It is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, whose circumcision is a physical thing.

Rather, the real Jew is the person who is a Jew on the inside, that is, whose heart has been circumcised, and this is the work of God's Spirit, not of the written Law. Such a person receives praise from God, not from human beings.

I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.

It is we, not they, who have received the true circumcision, for we worship God by means of his Spirit and rejoice in our life in union with Christ Jesus. We do not put any trust in external ceremonies.

Happy is the one whom the LORD does not accuse of doing wrong and who is free from all deceit.

God is indeed good to Israel, to those who have pure hearts.

Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.

He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come from his lips.

They have never been known to tell lies; they are faultless.