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Circumcision covenant

Col 2:
11 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"":
(NOTE: ""the circumcision made without hands"" & """by the circumcision of Christ"" Only Christ can preform spiritual baptism.)

12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
(NOTE: The baptism here "done without hands & by Christ is clearly one of spiritual/Holy Spirit baptism)

Both old & new circumcision are an entrance into a covenant with God. Old covenant circumcision Gen 17 was preformed physically in the flesh with hands. New covenant circumcision is preformed without hands via Christ's indwelling Holy Spirit. (Matt 3:11, Mk 1:8 & Lk 3:16.)

Related verses

Phil 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
(NOTE: Phil is written to NT saints/believers. See Phil 1:1)

Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

2 Cor 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Deut 30:6 (A) And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart

Eze 11:19 (A) And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
(NOTE: The "I" speaker here is the Lord GOD/vs 17)