In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision; (Weymouth)
When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature. (NLT)
In union with him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without human hands by stripping off the corrupt nature by the circumcision performed by the Messiah. (Intl. Standard Version)
In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts). (Amplified)
In him too you have the true circumcision—the circumcision which is not made with hands but wrought by the Spirit—the circumcision which divests not of a part only but of the whole carnal body—the circumcision which is not of Moses but of Christ. (Lightfoot)
Christ has also taken away your selfish desires, just as circumcision removes flesh from the body. (CEV)
Also in Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, a circumcision not done by hands. It was through Christ's circumcision, that is, his death, that you were made free from the power of your sinful self. (New Century Version)
When you came to Christ, you were circumcised, but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away a , and putting off b , of the whole carnal body c (the flesh d , the sinful self e , the corrupt nature f ).
a. New Living Translation
b. NKJV, Wuest, Barlcay
c. Lightfoot
d. Amplified, Douay-Rheims, New American Std.
e. New Century Version
f. GOD’S WORD, Intl. Std. Version
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