16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an appeal to his auditors And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee ? Deut. 10:12. Ask what he requires; as David (Ps. 116:12), What shall I render ? When we have received mercy from G…
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