3 For we are those with the real circumcision,*+ who are rendering sacred service* by God’s spirit+ and have our boasting in Christ Jesus+ and do not have our confidence in the flesh,+

14 how much more will the blood+ of the Christ, who through an everlasting spirit offered+ himself without blemish to God, cleanse+ our consciences from dead works+ that we may render sacred service+ to [the] living God?