²⁹ But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

4 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

³ For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

²⁹ But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.