⁵⁵ But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs for your eyes and thorns for your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

²⁴ ‘ “The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by^[a] prickly briars or painful thorns^(A) from all their neighbours who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

³ For we are the circumcision,^(A) the ones who worship by the Spirit^(B) of God, boast in Christ Jesus,^(C) and do not put confidence in the flesh –