Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful

that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hey friends, welcome back to another

episode of the Year in the Bible. I'm Alexa and I'm here with my co-host Beth.

Hi everyone. Today we're going to be discussing the annotation day on Romans 2, 28 through 29.

Those verses say, for a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh. On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one

inwardly and circumcision is of the heart. By the spirit, not the letter. That person's praise is not

from people, but from God. So, Alexa, how did this annotation day go for you? It was good, especially

after reading Deuteronomy 30 verse 6. I really loved the prompt that

asked us to read the verses in a few different translations and know any differences. For one,

that's just such a great reminder of how helpful it is to read different translations when it

comes to understanding what we're studying in God's Word. So the translation we read in the study

is the CSB. So I looked up the ESB first. A couple differences I saw there was that it says,

nor is circumcision outward and physical, where the CSB says true circumcision is not something visible

in the flesh. The ESV also says circumcision is a matter

of the heart, whereas the CSB says circumcision is of the heart. Then I looked at the NIV. The NIV is

pretty similar to the CSB, but one difference that I found helpful is that it says not by the written

code instead of not the letter like the CSB says.

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