But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

For indeed circumcision profits if you keep the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And will not the physically uncircumcised, who fulfills the law, judge you along with your written [code] and circumcision, a transgressor of the law?

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

since there is one God who will justify [the] circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

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

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

And Samuel said, Does the Lord take [as great] pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? Behold, obedience is better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams.

For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifice;

but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all My ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.

Whoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men thus, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does [them] and teaches [them], he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

He who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

And the [one] who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, from the Spirit whom He gave us.

By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

Blessed are those who do His commandments, so that their right shall be to the tree of life, and they may enter by the gates into the city.