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# Gentiles in the flesh
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This refers to people who were not born Jewish. Paul reminds these believers that God has now made Gentiles and Jews into one body through Christ and his cross.
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# uncircumcision
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"uncircumcised pagans". Non-Jewish people were not circumcised as babies and thus the Jews considered them people who do not follow any of God's laws.
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# circumcision
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"circumcised people". This was another term for Jewish people because all male infants were circumcised.
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# what is called the "circumcision" in the flesh made by human hands
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"Jews, who are circumcised by humans" or "Jews, who circumcise the physical body"
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# by what is called
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"by what people call" or "by those whom people call"
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