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Deuteronomy 10:16
Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!
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Ezekiel 36:26-27
I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.
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Ezekiel 11:19-20
I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies and I will give them tender hearts,so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
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Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.
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Colossians 2:11
In him you also were circumcised– not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.
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Jeremiah 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.”
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Romans 2:28-29
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,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.
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1John 5:3-4
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Deuteronomy 6:5
You must love the LORD your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.
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2 Corinthians 5 17
So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away– look, what is new has come!
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1 Corinthians 8 3
But if someone loves God, he is known by God.
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Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him,“‘ Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
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1John 4:7
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Exodus 20:6
and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
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Romans 11:26
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:“ The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
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John 3:3-7
Jesus replied,“ I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”Nicodemus said to him,“ How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”Jesus answered,“ I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.Do not be amazed that I said to you,‘ You must all be born from above.’
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1John 4:16-19
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James 1:12
Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
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James 2:5
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
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Jeremiah 9:26
That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord’ s sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts.”
