⁵⁵ “‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns^(A) in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.

²⁴ “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.^(A) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

³ For it is we who are the circumcision,^(A) we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus,^(B) and who put no confidence in the flesh—